Archive for April, 2009

Colon Cancer and Genetics

Friday, April 10th, 2009

Some professionals argue that cancer in its genetically disposed to an
individual if there family has a history of colon cancer. This is partially
correct, because 20% of all colon cancer patients have had family that
has had a history of colon cancer in their past.

If your family has a history of colon cancer, it is imperative that you
visit your local doctor and have yourself checked out.

If the person with colon cancer within your family is your father or your mother,
the chances of you having colon cancer will increase by 18%.

If you are genetically preordained to have colon cancer, there are several factors
that must be considered. This means that your chromosomes within the cells of
your colon are already set so that colon cancer can develop and spread
rapidly. The damaged chromosomes are more susceptible to the
whims of the cancer causing carcinogens because their immunity to
the proteins and amino acids that cause the division of cells is already
low.

If you do not know your family medical history it is best to call a
relative and find out as soon as possible. Since colon cancer can be in
an embarrassing disorder to admit among friends and family, someone
in your family would know if your father or mother had such condition.
The individual must remember that the genetic possibility of you
acquiring colon cancer is already at 20%.

This means if you are already have a one out of five chance of
contracting colon cancer. If you have a fatty diet and eat lots of
meat and little vegetables and grains you are even more susceptible
to colon cancer.

Like heart disease, the lifestyle choices and the genetic code within
your body determines the higher chance of colon cancer occurrence.

There are other conditions which cause the risk of colon cancer to
appear more frequently in some individuals than others. The age of a
person is not a factor when dealing with the cumulative aspects of
colon cancer. There are several conditions that affect the occurrence
of the cells within the colon but the mutations of the cells are still due
to the heredity, diet, and predisposition of individual. Remember
because you have only one of these factors does not mean that that
factor will be enough to cause colon cancer.

Sometimes it is the combination of factors that increases the percentage of risk.
Even if you donft have any of these factors within your lifestyle, it is better
to have yourself checked out by your doctor even if you do not show
any symptoms or pain. The polyps can exist within your colon right
now and you would not know it.

They are just waiting to find the method and means in which to mutate
the surrounding tissue and start to spread cancerous cells.

The risk outweighs the benefits of not being examined, because
colon cancer is a silent killer.

Once the cells are cancerous and has spread beyond the colon, sometimes it is too
late for treatment to prevail. It is better to go through the discomfort
and sometimes embarrassment of the examination then going on with
your life without lifestyle changes and the possibility of developing
colon cancer.

What Factors Contribute To Colon Cancer?

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Diet is the overall contribution factor of colon cancer. If you eat a fatty, meat filled diet, the chances of you contracting colon cancer is higher than if your dies contained more vegetables and grain products.

Research has shown that most Western populations have a higher incidence of colon cancer than those of Asia. These correlates with the diet the Asians ingest. They consume more rice and vegetables than most Americans and Europeans. Africans also have a lower chance of getting colon cancer due to their intake of grains. If you are partial to fast food, your chance of being a victim of colon cancer rises significantly.

When fat enters your system it is broken down differently than grain and vegetables. The complex chemical makeup of fat cause the substance to break down slowly and there are residue substances left over.

These substances rest in your colon longer than others. They carry components in them that are carcinogens, or cancer causing substances. These carcinogens will lie in the folds of your colon and do their dirty work of mutating cells and creating tumors.

If you continue to consume fat without the intake of fruits and vegetables, the fat carcinogens will continue to pile up. This makes the area of your colon highly susceptible to colon cancer. The lower intake of fat and the increase in fruits and grains will scrape and dig those carcinogens out of the folds of your colon and decrease your chance for polyps. If these polyps appear, most professionals believe all are noncancerous at the beginning. With time some develop into malignant tumors by slowly invading the healthy tissues and cells.

The surrounding tissue is aggravated and the cell division biological clock goes off kilter. The cells start dividing out of control and soon the polyp will be a mass of cancer that will spread if not treated. The colon cancer can definitely affect the colon and the function of the organ, the biggest danger is the cancer spreading to the liver or blood where treatment success is highly unlikely.

Colon cancer can also be linked to ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. These are inflammations found within your colon that cause adnominal pain and diarrhea.

Over 2 million of the residents of the United States is affected with this disorder and over half will develop colon cancer from this inflammation. Again this disorder is consistent with diet and is found more in the Western world than in the East. The same process proceeds with the inflammations as with the development of polyps. The irony is that with the inflammation, the tissue is already weakened due the inflammation making the carcinogens easier to do their job of creating polyps.

By treating these colon disorders, the chance of developing colon cancer will be greatly decreased. These conditions can be treated with drugs and diet or in extreme cases surgery. It is better to treat these conditions when they appear than take the chance of the development of colon polyps or colon cancer.

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What is Colon Cancer?

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Before you can understand how colon cancer can affect you, you must understand exactly what cancer is. Cancer is the umbrella name given to hundreds of diseases and disorders. Though talked about as lung cancer, breast cancer, colon cancers are many more, the disease does not really affect the organ but affects the cell of the organ. The title of the cancer comes from the organ affected. The colon, a major organ in your intestine, is made up of cells and when those cells become cancerous, colon cancer is diagnosed.

The cells will become cancerous if they begin to divide without control or function. This will cause damage to other cells as the dividing cells vie for space and dominancy. The normal function of the cells is to divide to replace old cells. When the cancerous cells divide without control the other cells have little chance competing with them.

The uncontrolled dividing cells take up more and more space until they become a mass of cells and become tumor or growth. Once large enough, the tumor can cause discomfort or even pain. The tumor, if not removed, will grow big enough so that you can actually see or feel the affected area. For example in breast cancer, the woman or doctor can feel on the outside of the skin for a bump or lump that is out of place.

There are two different kinds of tumors. The first type of tumor is the benign and is not life threatening. It usually does not spread. They are akin to a wart or growth you might see on your skin. A doctor may choose to remove the benign tumor are just to leave it because to disturb the tumor might cause the cancer to become malignant. When the tumor cells do become malignant, the tumor now is cancerous. These cancerous cells can spread throughout the body and invade each cell, tissue, or organ. If the cancer is spread too much it can even enter the blood stream and cause blood cancer.

This is the most serious type of cancer because the cancer cells now are incorporated to all parts of your body. As the cancer spreads throughout your body, the new cancer cells will invade healthy cells and cause them to become cancerous. A simple tumor can spread cancerous cells into all the organ systems of the body and eventually one will succumb and die. Each organ produces a specific kind of cell. So if your cancer starts in the colon and move towards your lungs through the blood system the cancer will still be called colon cancer even though your lungs are now infected.

Another example would be if breast cancer got into the bloodstream and moved into the ovaries. The breast cancer would be in a different location in a different body organ. The name of the cancer was still be called breast cancer. The original place of where to cancer started is the origin of the name the cancer will receive while it is in your body. Though the colon does not seem a vital organs system, it is essential to life. Why is the colon such a vital part to your healthy body existence?

The colon is part of the digestive system of which most of the waste material is stored. Inside the colon is where your feces will travel and finish the final part of digestion before being excreted out of the anus. At the end of the long portion of the colon is a small part of the colon that is called the rectum, which leads to the anus. The entire system which is made up of the colon, rectum, and anus makes up what is known as the large intestines.

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