Depending on the stage in which the cancer is diagnosed, colon cancer can be both a disease very difficult to cure and a disease treatable. So, when the cancer is discovered in the earliest stage, it can be cured really easy through a surgical removal of the cancerous tumor. So, in these cases, colon cancer treatment is surgery. However, because cancer can reoccur in any moment after the treatment has been applied and after the primary tumor was cured or the metastases withdraw, you should always be careful about preventing cancer form growing again. Prevention can be done in many ways and it can reduce the causes of recurrence and the number of patients that have to pass through this awful time. In recurrences also, but mostly in primary tumors, the cancer is cured by removing it through a surgical intervention. After surgery, you must follow exactly the things that your doctor advices you to do and you must know that diet is very important because by not respecting it you can slow down the healing process. There are many kind of surgical interventions that can be performed in cancer case. However, a surgery can affect an individual ability to eat or it can cause weakness or even nausea.

After a colonoscopy, you will be able to eat anything that can be digested easily. You can not eat raw vegetables, sweets, fatty foods, skin and peel of fruits or high-fiber grains. After a colonoscopy you may also reduce the consumption of yogurt, bananas or juice. Anyway, in most cases after surgery is recommended a low residue diet. This diet is most of the times the opposite of the one recommended in colon cancer prevention. The low residue diet after colon cancer surgery can include grains, such as cereals, soda crackers, pastas, melba toast or buns, fruits, such as bananas, grapes, peaches, watermelon, apricots, with the avoid of prunes or berries.

The diet after colon cancer surgery should avoid raw vegetables and vegetables that create gas, such as cauliflower, kale, cabbage or broccoli. The proteins should also be reduced. Do not eat very much meat and focus on fish. Avoid beans or peas. You should drink 100 percent natural vegetables juices and you should eat mushrooms, beets, carrots, cucumbers or beans.

When what you want is to prevent colon cancer recurrence, then you need to eat according to one diet, processed meats, refined and processed grains or refined sugar. Eat as much garlic, fish oil and sea vegetables as you can. Fatty fish, nuts and seeds, beans and peas are other foods that are recommended in colon cancer recurrence prevention. However, your diet must be known by your doctor, who can give you advices about what to eat and what foods to avoid depending on the phase of the cancer and the treatment applied to cure it.