Unfortunately, today colon cancer is a reality for many people, and despite the many campaigns made in order to raise the degree of the disease informing and the colon cancer support groups and campaigns, still a great number of individuals get a colon cancer diagnosis and sometimes it is actually too late for the cancer to be cured.

Colon cancer is one of the types of cancer diseases that is formed in the colon, which is a part of the digestive system. Why is colon cancer formed is a question that still has not an exact answer.

Some doctors consider that colon cancer development can be determined by the heritage of some mutant genes and polyps that grow and become in time cancerous. Others consider that colon cancer is a result on many factors, which summed can determine the disease forming. They can be the diet, smoking, drinking or even pollution.


However, colon cancer is first formed because some of the cells in the area start developing in an abnormal way. They determine the cancerous tumors forming and they can be discovered and removed because this happens, but in most cases patients do not have the needed medical tests until the cancer is advanced because they have no idea that the disease was formed.

The detection can be done through screening tests and in a colonoscopy for example if some threats are found, even if they are not colon cancer at first, but they do have the potential of becoming, they can be removed.


Colon cancer treatments often can not do very much for a patient. If the cancer spreads, just in a few cases the individual manages to pass the five years prognosis period. So for the great majority of patients in the last stage, the cancer brings death. Treatment for colon cancer is seen in general in two directions. The first one is the surgery. In the first stages surgical intervention are performed and the cancerous tumors are totally removed. This does not mean that a patient is cured and the cancer can not reappear.

In fact in many cases there are diagnosed after a certain period of time colon cancer recurrences. This means that secondary cancerous tumors can be formed even if the primary tumor was cured. Anyway, if it passed five years and you are feeling good, probably you managed to cure the disease.


The second part of colon cancer treatment is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can be administrated also as an adjuvant treatment besides surgery. However, it is the primary treatment for colon cancer advanced stages, when the tumors spread. In these cases, surgery can not be performed and first the cancer must be stopped from growing. In chemotherapy treatments many different drugs are administrated to make cancer withdraw.