What Organs Does Colon Cancer Affect
Published on Feb 03 2010, in the categories: Uncategorized
The colon cancer is a maligned tumor that affects the colon and rectal area. This kind of cancer is wide spread both in men and women. The main part of this issue starts from adenomas or polyps. The statistics show the fact that almost eighty percent of the cases are sporadic, and only twenty percent inherited from an already diseased genetic code.
The colon has its role in retaining and eliminating the residue that the body cannot digest. In the time that the food residues reach the colon, the body already absorbed all the necessary nutritive substances. The left over’s are water, electrolytes, such as sodium and chloral residues, along with bacteria and dead cells, as a direct result of the internal digestive tract layers. Between the twelve – twenty four hours, when the food residues pass through the colon, the body absorbs almost all the water remained, usually one or one and a half liters a day. The remaining residues, called now faeces, are at this stage not very solid but completely shaped. These are full of bacteria that are harmless to the body when the colon is intact. Food residue move through the colon because of the muscular contraction. These contractions manage to separate the residues in small fragments. After each meal, on the descending colon there are considerable contractions, and many segments of residues join together to form the final form of faeces, that are pushed in the inferior part of colon and rectum. As the rectal tissue stretches, the sensation of eliminating the faeces kicks in. If the final form of residue is not eliminated, the surrounding tissue will keep absorb water from it, becoming harder and more difficult to eliminate resulting in constipation.
The symptoms of the colon cancer are associated with stool problems, mucus stool, sometime the presence of blood, which changes the regular color of the stool, making it blacker. Also the intestinal transit becomes irregular and varies in consistency (creating an alternative constipation and diarrhea period). It can create a persistent sensation of the need to take a stool and can cause abdominal pains depending on your body weight. Anemia is also one of the symptoms that can emerge in the developing stages of the colon cancer. Some people even complained a vertigo sensation associated with sickness and vomiting.
The main causes for the colon cancer’s apparition lays in the over consumption of red meat. The way your digestive tract manages to digest such a meal.
A low vegetable fiber diet, that causes the formation of a softer stool and creates a risk in eliminating ingested carcinoma agents.
Alcohol consumption, in large quantities doubles the risk of cancer developing, mainly in heavy beer drinkers.
Smoking, especially in the cases where the smoker started early.
From a hereditary perspective the risk of developing a colon cancer is aproximatly fifty percent, for those who had a first degree cancer sufferer.
Inflamatory diseases especially in the intestinal area: ulcer, Crohn disease, can grow the risk with sixty percent.
The colon has its role in retaining and eliminating the residue that the body cannot digest. In the time that the food residues reach the colon, the body already absorbed all the necessary nutritive substances. The left over’s are water, electrolytes, such as sodium and chloral residues, along with bacteria and dead cells, as a direct result of the internal digestive tract layers. Between the twelve – twenty four hours, when the food residues pass through the colon, the body absorbs almost all the water remained, usually one or one and a half liters a day. The remaining residues, called now faeces, are at this stage not very solid but completely shaped. These are full of bacteria that are harmless to the body when the colon is intact. Food residue move through the colon because of the muscular contraction. These contractions manage to separate the residues in small fragments. After each meal, on the descending colon there are considerable contractions, and many segments of residues join together to form the final form of faeces, that are pushed in the inferior part of colon and rectum. As the rectal tissue stretches, the sensation of eliminating the faeces kicks in. If the final form of residue is not eliminated, the surrounding tissue will keep absorb water from it, becoming harder and more difficult to eliminate resulting in constipation.
The symptoms of the colon cancer are associated with stool problems, mucus stool, sometime the presence of blood, which changes the regular color of the stool, making it blacker. Also the intestinal transit becomes irregular and varies in consistency (creating an alternative constipation and diarrhea period). It can create a persistent sensation of the need to take a stool and can cause abdominal pains depending on your body weight. Anemia is also one of the symptoms that can emerge in the developing stages of the colon cancer. Some people even complained a vertigo sensation associated with sickness and vomiting.
The main causes for the colon cancer’s apparition lays in the over consumption of red meat. The way your digestive tract manages to digest such a meal.
A low vegetable fiber diet, that causes the formation of a softer stool and creates a risk in eliminating ingested carcinoma agents.
Alcohol consumption, in large quantities doubles the risk of cancer developing, mainly in heavy beer drinkers.
Smoking, especially in the cases where the smoker started early.
From a hereditary perspective the risk of developing a colon cancer is aproximatly fifty percent, for those who had a first degree cancer sufferer.
Inflamatory diseases especially in the intestinal area: ulcer, Crohn disease, can grow the risk with sixty percent.
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