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Colon Cancer


 * Description: (TNR, 12, Bold) **

Colon cancer is, mechanism that regulates cell growth, they stop working and then cells divide out of control to form tumors. This is called cancer. But colon cancer is when a tumors covers the outside of your colon and slowly kills the colon.


 * Inheritance: **

This disease is inherited by families who have had colon cancer in their history, the are most likely to get the disease. You are at even more risk when one of your family members have ever had colon cancer before the age of 50, because they may have inherited one of two rare genetic conditions.


 * Symptoms: **

The symptoms of colon cancer are, colon cancer affects the stomach and bowels. The common symptoms include diarrhea and/or constipation, blood in the stool. Plus vomiting, bloating, cramps and unexplainable weight loss.


 * Daily Life: **

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 * Diagnosis: **

if you have the symptoms of colon cancer you have to meet with your Physician, a gastroenterologist, a physician specially trained in the management of digestive system disorders, or a colon and rectal surgeon, a specialist in treatment of diseases of the colon.


 * Treatment: **

Colon cancer is a very treatable, in fact just about 90% of all colon cancer patience’s survive the disease. There are many tests that doctors take to help heal you. Plus they also preform surgery to remove the cancer.


 * Research: **

Scientist and doctors have been researching the disease colon cancer for many years and have come up with way to treat colon cancer. They preform many blood tests everyday to try to understand the disease a little more.


 * Additional Facts: **

Inherited cancers often provide clues about the genes mutated in noninherited cancers. For example, mutations in the APC gene are found not only in FAP tumor but in 85% of all sporadic colon tumors as well.


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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Resources: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; line-height: 24px;">**www.learn.genetics.utah/edu/units/disorders/whataregd.com**

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