riccoj+colon+cancer

Colon cancer
 * Description: **
 * Colon cancer begins when the cells in your colon or rectum grow out of control and take over healthy cells. Colon cancer affects the stomach and bowels. Common symptoms include diarrhea blood in stool vomiting bloating cramps and unexplained weight loss. **


 * Inheritance: **

if a parent has F.A.P or H.N.C.P.P., his or her children has a 50 percent chance of get colon cancer. F.A.P. and H.N.C.P.P are both inheritance genes but that does not mean you will necessarily get colon cancer. People who inherit the A.P.C bad gene are practically guaranteed to get colon cancer by 40 years old.

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 * Symptoms: **
 * Blood in stool
 * Vomiting
 * Bloating
 * Cramps
 * Unexplained weight loss
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 * Diagnosis: **

when a patient shows symptoms of colon cancer his or her doctor can screen for the disease using one of several tests: Fecal occult blood test (fort) <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Colon cancer can sometimes cause tiny dots of blood, to small for the eye to see in the feces the FOBT test uses a special chemical to check the patients stool sample for traces of blood. <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Double contrast barium enema (DCBA) a silvery white metallic substance call barium is inserted up the patients colon an x- ray of the out lines the patient colon to see if there’s anything unusual.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Colon cancer is very treatable. In fact 90% of patients survive the disease after treatment. First doctors stage the disease to see how far it has progressed. It the cancer has not spread to other tissues of the body it can be treated with……. <span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Special chemicals (chemotherapy) or radiations (powerful x-rays) that kill all rapidly dividing cells in the body including cancer cells. Also surgery to remove the polyps and/ or cancerous part of the colon.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chemoprevention is the use of natural or man- made chemicals to lower a person’s risk of getting cancer. Researchers are testing whether certain substance such as fiber minerals vitamins or drugs can lower cob rectal cancer risks. Some studies have found that people who take multivitamins with foils acid, vitamin d supplements or calcium many have a lower colorectal cancer risk. Research into this question is now being done.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">People who have fap can develop hundreds and even thousands of polyps in their colon, where as people with hnpcc develop relatively few. The progression from a begging to a malignant cancer typically requires mutations that allow cells to acquire new and abnormal characteristics such as an increase at growth rate, inability to adhere or sick to neighboring cells. Propensity places in the body.
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Author of organization: The University of Utah <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Web site title: learn genetics <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Web page or article: colon cancer <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">URL: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date of website: 2011 <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date information received: everything but day in life of some one with colon cancer
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