COLO-RECTAL Cancer

Colon cancer affects the large intestine (colon).

It usually affects older adults, but can happen at any age. It starts as polyps in the colon.

Polyps may remain symptomsless.

Symptoms

• Change in your bowel habits- diarrhea or constipation
• Bleeding in stool
• Persistent abdominal pain
• Incomplete evacuation of Bowel
• Unexplained weight loss

Risk factors

• Older age
• African-American race
• History of colorectal cancer or polyps
• Inflammatory intestinal disease:
  • Ulcerative colitis
  • Crohn’s disease
• Genetics
• Family history
• Low-fiber, high-fat diet
• Diabetes
• Obesity
• Smoking
• Alcoholism
• Radiation exposure

Screening for colon cancer can be done for elderly >50 yrs in high risk population.

Lifestyle changes

Diagnosis

Screening

Diagnosing colon cancer

• Colonoscopy

Treatment

A multidisciplinary team of gastroenterologists, colon and rectal surgeons, oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, and pathologists are needed to treat colon cancer.

Surgery for early-stage colon cancer

• Polypectomy
• Endoscopy
• Minimally invasive
• Partial colectomy

• Partial colectomy
• Lymph node Surgery

Chemotherapy

Radiation therapy

Drug therapy

Immunotherapy

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