colon cancer and its symptoms

Colon cancer is cancer that starts in the large intestine to our rectum and most referred as colorectal cancer and nearly all colon cancers begin as begnign polyps which solwly develop into cancer. Most colon cancer show no symptoms at the beginning when sign and symptom show up it might be in stage four where the cancer is considered no curable.

The sign and symptoms Cancer of colon however may sometimes indicate are change in bowel habits, Diarrhea, blood in the stool, constipation, intestinal obstruction, abdominal pain and tenderness in the lower abdomen, weight loss, finding your stools became narrow and unexplained anemia. If colon cancer if dectated early the changes of survival is very high as high as ninety % for most patients after a five years diagnoise. It is considered cure if the cancer does not returned after five years treatment.

Survey has found the rate of colon cancer death has dropped in the last fifteen years. It is due to increased awarness of the people and screening by colonoscopy.