Colon Cancer is becoming a Major Health problem everywhere in the world, when detected early it can be curable in almost 90% of Patients. People over 50 Years or more are likely to suffer from colon cancer as compared to the younger ones.

This disease begins in the cells that line the colon.

Causes of disease:

A polyp is an extra tissue that grows inside your body. Colonic polyps grow in the large intestine. The large intestine is also called the colon. These polyps may be small or large. The cells in the polyp eventually become uncontrolled and turn into cancer.

Colon cancer can develop in conditions, such as ulcerative colitis, and chronic inflammation in the colon. There is strong medical evidence that supports that abnormal genes for colon polyps and cancer can be passed from Parent to Child, which is unable to control the growth of polyps.

So we recommend that everyone age 50 or older have a screening test to look for colon polyps. so that if there is any finding, we can remove them to prevent colon cancer.

Symptoms of Disease:

Mostly small polyps don’t cause symptoms. Often, people don’t know they have Colonic Polyps until the doctor finds it during a regular check-up or while testing them for some other problem. but If polyps get large in size, they can cause symptoms and complications such as bleeding from your rectum, change in bowel habits including diarrhea, constipation (almost longer than 6 Days), going to the bathroom more often or less often than usual, or a change in color of stool (Blood can make stool look black, or it can show up as red streaks in the stool).

Care and Guidance:

As we cannot change our genes but if there is a family history of colon polyps or cancer, a colonoscopy should be performed to remove the polyps before they become malignant. In the early stages, these types of cancer are 90% Curable, so one should be careful about symptoms and screening should be definitely done after the age of 50 years or in case of Heriditical evidence.