Colon cancer prognosis are made depending on the exact location of the tumors, the location of the metastases, if they were formed any, the stage of the disease the age of the patient, its general health and they way the patient body responds to the treatment applied. The prognosis is a time period that doctors think a patient will survive according to all those particular factors. However, nobody can say for surly how your disease is going to evolve and if you can be cured or not.



Being diagnosed with colon cancer, regardless of the stage of the disease can come as a shock for many people. The first thing you may think about is how long are you going to live and what is the future going to bring for you. Everybody wants an answer to these questions. But doctors can not give them an answer, at least not clear one. Doctors also search for statistics and survival rates, or for similar cases to be able to make a prognosis.

The prognosis makes a general idea about how the cancer is going to evolve, how treatment is going to be applied and in which situation does cancer reoccurs. Having all the details of the patients’ medical history and the cancerous tumors, doctors try to predict the way the cancer is going to evolve and they say what may happen in the particular case they have. They do this basing on the way cancer evolved in similar cases.

Colon cancer prognosis can be good if the patient responds well to treatment. Sometimes before starting treatment, doctors can make favorable prognosis based on the patient health, age and ability to fight with the disease. The prognosis is different in different stages of colon cancer. In the earliest stages there is no reason way a doctor should make a bad prognosis if the patient general heath is not bad.



In colon cancer advanced stages the prognosis are not optimistic at all. This is way usually people diagnosed with the last stage of colon cancer think that there is nothing they can do and when doctors give them, because of the low survival rates in this stage, a bad prognosis loose all their hope of cure. This is a misconception because people with the most advanced stage of colon cancer can be cured, although the survival rates are not higher than 10 percent. Hope is important because when hope is gone, the energy of the fight itself is lost.

However, you should not forget that no doctor and nobody can know for sure what will happen and how your tumors will evolve. So you have to keep your hopes realistic, but you should not loose all hope either.