Regarding colon and rectal cancer many studies have been made over the years with the main purpose to find a new and better treatment that can cure the patients in the most advanced phases of the cancer. Unfortunately, still there is not a medicine or drug that can cure this type of cancer or that can offer a guarantee that the disease will be treated.

When the first symptoms of colon cancer occur, people usually associate them with other disease, and they are in fact symptoms that are not only specific to colon cancer. A study shows that about 90 percent of the patients that have experienced pain, rectal bleeding and itching have thought they have hemorrhoids.

Of course, there are also other colon cancer symptoms that may occur, but it is a fact that colon cancer first sings to not occur until the disease is already evolved. But, someone with colon cancer can also experience excessive gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, adnominal discomfort or the feeling of incomplete bowel removal.


Colon and rectal cancer is diagnosed by doctors depending on the exact location of the primary cancerous tumor. The cancer that starts in the colon is called colon cancer and the one that starts in the rectal area is named rectal cancer. If the cancer has not yet spread the most appropriate way to discover it is a screening procedure.

Screenings are usually recommended mostly for those that have a high risk of developing colon cancer and you must know that in this disease the age is considered to be a major risk factor. If you are aged over 50, you should probably have medical tests every year to be able to discover the cancer right after forming.


In the first phase colon and rectal cancer is formed as polyps that are not necessary cancerous at the benign, but they can grow and be transformed in colon cancer and in most cases, they actually do so. This is why it is best to remove them before they become a threat for your health. In fact, in a colonoscopy, which is a screening test, if such polyps are found they are removed easily. However, when the diagnosis is made in a very advanced stage and the cancer is already spread, the patient’s chances of cure and life expectancy are very low.

This is why all doctors recommend prevention and when prevention can not be done they advice all patients to be careful al the main symptoms and have anyway screenings at some certain time periods. Anyway, despite all informing campaigns and programs, still colorectal cancer is one of the main causes of death among cancer patients all over the world, and still most diagnosis are made in the last stage.