How to detect an early cancer diagnose - If you know yourself that you have a high risk to develop colon cancer you have to go to a check up at least once even three months. Because colon cancer attacks very rapidly the nearby tissue and could extend even more and could affect some vital organs that the humans need in order to survive. Those people who are in higher risk than ordinary people are the ones who have family members who also suffered from any kind of cancer because cancer is to be known as hereditary.

So if you’re known to be as a risk to develop this terrible disease so you just want to be extra careful you must learn the symptoms that could indicate the beginning of an early stage of colon cancer such as irregularities in your bowel system like constipation or diarrhea or if you’re feeling very full or bloated after a meal that is not very consistent or even if you feeling with a lot more less energy than the usually and lost of appetite and some weight gain or lost you must go immediately to your family doctor for extra screenings and test. An early detection could save your life.

Sometimes one of the symptoms to detect a colon cancer is blood in stool that has the color brown or black. Even if you don’t have this symptom you could also test your stool once every 6 months because it’s very easy and very important to find any abnormalities.

If you have over fifty years old is good to schedule a colonoscopy every 6 months and this is recommended also for the younger people who are known to be in a high risk to develop colon cancer. A colonoscopy shows the doctor your entire colon line and he could see if there are any abnormal growths. If he finds such any he will make a biopsy from one of the polyp and he will find out if it is benign or malign.

You can also try the new virtual colonoscopy that uses a CT scan to take something like a picture of your entire colon and so the doctor could check for every abnormalities growth in your system. If it is found such growths they can easily surgically remove and that could prevent a cancer to develop or even other such growths to appear.

Unfortunately a lot of people ignore the early symptoms that could save their lives and end up to the surgically table to late when the cancer has already reached the vital organs in their body. Even so the doctor will try to remove all the infected tissue that he can possible can without affect the patient’s life but after that he would have to deal with a long treatment of chemotherapy and the five rate survival for a stage 4 colon cancer are pretty slim approximately ten percent.