What if I have colon cancer,what can I do?
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i hope u very long healthy life dear friend
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There are lots of things that can be influencing factors (genetics, general health, etc.) but I believe the main risk factor with colon cancer is not getting enough insoluble fiber in one's diet.  Insoluble fiber (found in unprocessed wheat, etc.) helps to clean out the lower digestive system, and the colon in particular.  This is an important element in protecting the colon.
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Try this on for size:  I have a friend who has full-blown AIDS...now he has tested positive for colon cancer.  Which disease will kill him first?\n\nBut we can all learn a lesson from him.  It's not the disease in your body that makes life bad.  It's how you deal with news.\n\nHe doesn't think he's going to die...in fact, he's been living a healthy life with AIDS and colon cancer for well over twelve years.
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prune juice..steer clear of medications..they encourage lazy bowels..eat more veges.happy motions to you.
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Cancer survivor here.  Hang in there.\n\n1.  Don't just blindly accept whatever medical treatments the doctors throw at you.  Become a part of the process making informed choices.  Get on the internet and read and thoroughly research your options.  Get help from a friend who has some medical background if necessary, and ask them to help you understand things.\n\n2.  Take care of yourself in natural ways in addition to medical treatment.  Eliminate any foods with artificial chemicals, pesticides, and growth hormones from your diet.  Eat only fresh organic foods, including lots of healthy anti-oxident foods like berries, pomegranite, leafy greens, walnuts.  Care for your body with as much yoga and exercise as you can do during treatment, lots of massages, etc.\n\n3.  Actively manage your state of mind to keep a positive and hopeful outlook and focus your energies on healing.  I found aromatherapy relaxation techniques, pranayama and insight meditation helpful for this.\n\nBe well.
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Cancer Signs and Symptoms\nCancer gives you no symptoms or signs that exclusively indicate the disease. Every complaint for cancer can explain a harmless condition as well. If you have symptoms, however, you should see a doctor for further evaluation. Some common symptoms are as follows: \n\n\n\nPersistent cough or blood-tinged saliva \n\n\nThese symptoms usually represent simple infections such as bronchitis or sinusitis. \n\n\nThey could be symptoms of cancer of your lung, head, and neck. Anyone with a cough that lasts more than a month or with blood in the mucus that is coughed up should see a doctor. \n\n\nA change in bowel habits \n\n\nDoctors sometimes see pencil-thin stools with colon cancer. \n\n\nOccasionally, cancer exhibits continuous diarrhea. \n\n\nSome people with cancer feel as if they need to have a bowel movement and still feel that way after they have had a bowel movement. If any of these abnormal bowel complaints last more than a few days, they require evaluation. \n\n\nBlood in your stool \n\n\nA doctor always should investigate blood in your stool. \n\n\nHemorrhoids frequently cause rectal bleeding, but because hemorrhoids are so common, they may exist with cancer. Therefore, even when you have hemorrhoids, you should have a doctor examine your entire intestinal tract when you have blood in your bowel movements. \n\n\nX-rays may be enough. \n\n\nSometimes, when the source of your bleeding is entirely clear, these studies may not be needed. \n\n\nUnexplained anemia \n\n\nAnemia is a condition in which you have fewer than the expected number of red blood cells in your blood. Anemia should be investigated. \n\n\nThere are many kinds of anemia, but blood loss almost always causes iron deficiency anemia. Unless there is an obvious source of ongoing blood loss, as there is for menstruating women, this anemia needs to be explained. \n\n\nMany cancers can cause anemia, but bowel cancers most commonly cause iron deficiency anemia. Evaluation should include endoscopy or x-ray studies of your upper and lower intestinal tracts. \n\n\nBreast lump or breast discharge \n\n\nMost breast lumps are noncancerous tumors such as fibroadenomas or cysts. But all breast lumps need to be thoroughly investigated. \n\n\nA negative mammogram result is not sufficient to evaluate a breast lump. \n\n\nGenerally, diagnosis requires a needle aspiration or biopsy (a small tissue sample). \n\n\nDischarge from a breast is common. But some forms of discharge may be signs of cancer. If discharge is bloody or from only 1 nipple, further evaluation is recommended. \n\n\nWomen are advised to conduct monthly breast self-examinations. \n\n\nLumps in the testicles \n\n\nMost men (90%) with cancer of the testicle have a painless or uncomfortable lump on a testicle. \n\n\nSome men have an enlarged testicle. \n\n\nOther conditions, such as infections and swollen veins, can also cause changes in your testicles, but you should have any lump evaluated. \n\n\nMen are advised to conduct monthly testicular self-examinations. \n\n\nA change in urination \n\n\nUrinary symptoms can include frequent urination, small amounts of urine, and slow urine flow. \n\n\nThese symptoms can be caused by urinary infections or, in men, by an enlarged prostate gland. \n\n\nMost men will suffer from harmless prostate enlargement as they age, and will often have these urinary symptoms. \n\n\nThese symptoms may signal prostate cancer. \n\n\nMen experiencing urinary symptoms need a bit of investigation, probably including a specific blood test called a PSA and a digital rectal exam. \n\n\nCancer of the bladder and pelvic tumors can also cause irritation of the bladder and urinary frequency. \n\n\nBlood in the urine \n\n\nHematuria or blood in the urine can be caused by urinary infection, kidney stones, or other causes. \n\n\nFor some people, it is a symptom of cancer of the bladder or kidney. \n\n\nAny episode of blood in the urine should be investigated. \n\n\nHoarseness \n\n\nHo
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Symptoms of colon cancer are numerous and non-specific. They include fatigue, weakness, shortness of breath, change in bowel habits, narrow stools, diarrhea or constipation, red or dark blood in stool, weight loss, abdominal pain, cramps, or bloating. Other conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (spastic colon), ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, diverticulosis, and peptic ulcer disease can have symptoms that mimic colorectal cancer. Colon cancer can be present for several years before symptoms develop. Symptoms vary according to where in the large bowel the tumor is located. Typically, right-sided cancers cause iron deficiency anemia due to the slow loss of blood over a long period of time. Iron deficiency anemia causes fatigue, weakness, and shortness of breath. The left colon is narrower than the right colon. Therefore, cancers of the left colon are more likely to cause partial or complete bowel obstruction. Cancers causing partial bowel obstruction can cause symptoms of constipation, narrowed stool, diarrhea, abdominal pains, cramps, and bloating. Bright red blood in the stool may also indicate a growth near the end of the left colon or rectum. Surgery is the most common treatment for colorectal cancer.The long term prognosis after surgery depends on whether the cancer has spread to other organs.  The risk of metastasis is proportional to the depth of penetration of the cancer into the bowel wall. In patients with early colon cancer which is limited to the superficial layer of the bowel wall, surgery is often the only treatment needed. These patients can experience long term survival in excess of eighty percent. In patients with advanced colon cancer, wherein the tumor has penetrated beyond the bowel wall and there is evidence of metastasis to distant organs, the five year survival rate is less than ten percent.
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I love questions like this.  There are hundreds of books out there that say something like "death begins in the colon" and "cleanse the toxins" and other rubbish.\n\nWhile there is truth to poor diets causing ill health (Americans eat a lot of fat and have a very high incidence of colon cancer), there's a lot of myths too.\n\nFiber is the key.  Instead of looking for miracle cures, adapt a healthy lifestyle.  Eat whole-fiber, low fat foods and read labels.  (While you're at it, cut down on the salt too).  Just reaching the FDA's recommended allowance of fiber daily can be a challenge.  (No more fast food!)  Also, drink plenty of water.  You can't flush out the bad if it's stuck like a rock inside of you.  (Constipation hurts).  Finally, exercise.  Along with all the other health benefits (and burning calories, duh) regular exercise will promote peristalsis (the regular movement of stuff through your insides).  \n\nSeriously though, it takes some work to keep yourself healthy.  Keep at it.  And please stay away from people who are going to shove stuff where it doesn't belong and "flush you out".  That's really not good for you.  Also, stay away from laxatives unless your doctor suggests it.  They can have very bad side effects.  \n\nJust eat right and exercise.\n\nFootnote:  Enemas and Go-Lytly are not good!  You can severely imbalance your sodium and postassium levels!  (read: heart failure)  Don't stick things up there unless a doctor (a real doctor) tells you to!
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Have the dermatologist cut them off or freeze them off.\n\nFYI, too many skin tags is a pre-sign of colon issues in the future, they are learning......so have your colon checked for polyps or cancer when you get older.
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D,\n\n(what cancer ??)\n\nhang in there;  if one thing doesn't work go for anouther.\n\nREAD READ READ - everyting about your cancer - including the medical journals.  Doc have to rememeber "everything" about a "LOT" of cancers - you only care and need to study on one type so become the expert on yours.\n\nfind others on line or local with your cancer and the ".org" for your cancer - they will have specific information for your cancer and some ideas on how to treat\n\nget someone to help;  it is hard to do all on your own - get help,  you can't do it alone and should not do it alone\n\nsome durgs take longer too - so don't loose hope;  your mind is a potenet medicine also \n\nFIGHT FIGHT FIGHT\n\nGood luck,\n\nJewells\n27 months and still here
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Consult your physician with regards to what to do about your brain tumor.  There are so many different kinds that I don't feel comfortable trying to answer.\n\nFor both your heart and your bloodpressure your going to want to do the following:\n\nLose weight.\nChange your diet to eliminate salty and sugary foods.\nResearch medicines to lower blood pressure but be careful of the side effects.\nExcercise.\n\nBeyond that I don't know.  You should have some powerful pain killers available to you by perscription.  Meditation might also the something you'll want to look into for pain management.  Also if your able to make the above lifestyle changes you should start to feel a little better.\n\nWishing you the best,\n\nArmus
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There are many reasons for such symptoms...Could be something as simple as hemorrhoids or as serious as colon cancer or anything in between...put your mind at ease and see your Dr. ASAP.
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Yes, go to the ER in an emergency clinic if you think you have cancer. But, they might ask to see proof of your health insurance. Good luck.
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Colon cancer is the third most common type of cancer in the US, and the second leading cause of cancer death.  Colon cancer claims the lives of 50,000 men and women a year.  \n\nThere is a graph showing survival rates for the different stages of colon cancer (for example, cancer has not penetrated the bowel-cancer found early to cancer has spread to other organs-advanced colon cancer) here:  http://www.mc.uky.edu/RuralHealth/LayHealth/colocancer.pdf#search='colon%20cancer%20rates'
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If the radiation has killed enough cells in one spot, it can last the rest of your life. You should have a doctor evaluate your problem, since it's possible that you need surgery to repair a section of your colon, or that you may have developed cancer that is causing the problem.
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Me and my mother suffer from the same thing. I don't think it leads to colon cancer, but we haven't found anything that removes it. I guess there's some digestive pills and enzymes that help relieve it...i've hear it's dependent on stress.
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Your food isn't being fully digested before entering your colon.   If you've been eating a lot of vegetables, it can sometimes happen.  If you find this is happening fairly often, you should see your doctor.