Colon cancer or colorectal is cancer that grows in the colon or rectum. Colorectal cancer is a type of malignant disease who are most influenced by the environment and unhealthy lifestyle. It is known that colorectal cancer is the second cause of death due to cancer.
Colorectal cancer has no specific symptoms at an early stage so often ignored.
Symptoms of colorectal cancer that emerged when it entered an advanced stage are:
1. Changes in bowel patterns. For example: from normal bowel to difficult or even diarrhea
2. Feel pain in the lower right abdomen when it affects colon
3. Bleeding in the stool
A treatment option that can be done to deal with colorectal cancer depends on the stage, positions and sizes also its distribution. Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and targeted therapies focus (targeted therapy) also be used.
Up to now it doesn’t know surely what is the cause of colorectal cancer, but probably influenced by the low consumption of fiber, a lot of eating foods with high fat levels and environmental influences.
For early detection of colorectal cancer can perform blood tests on the stool, if it is positive then proceed to do a colonoscopy to see if there are polyps or cancer.
By doing the screening test then it could reduce morbidity and mortality rates of 30-40 percent.
