Colon cancer is well known disease today. How did colon cancer cases grew so much and when was the first case of colon cancer discovered are some of the questions that need an answer in order to be able to understand this disease.

Nowadays there have been made many researches about colon cancer and a lot of facts are known regarding this disease evolution, diagnosis or main risk factors. The first thing you have to know about this type of cancer it that it can be very easy cured when the diagnosis is made in one of the first stages. When colon cancer is discovered in a very advanced stage, such as stage three and mostly stage four the disease is much more difficult to cure and sometimes almost impossible.

So, because colon cancer is discovered in an advanced stage, for many people the disease is fatal. This happens because in the last two stages colon cancer starts spreading and it can affect other organs such as the liver or the lungs. When this happens, the cancer main treatment is chemotherapy.


So, colon cancer diagnosed cases started growing each year and since when was the first case of colon cancer discovered till today, many people died because of this type of cancer. The lack of information and the lack of knowledge about this colon cancer are the main causes of this fact.

Even if in many countries informing campaigns and free screenings programs were made with the purpose to grow the awareness level regarding this disease, still the great majority of patients are diagnosed in the most advanced phases of the cancer and for them is too late to defeat the disease.


What doctors recommend? Well, the first thing a doctor is going to tell you is to try to avoid colon cancer risk factors and to start prevention as soon as possible. Another important element is to be careful at all the symptoms that may indicate you a colon cancer forming, even if they are not very alarming and they can be associated with other diseases. Having screening tests at the recommended time periods is something that every doctor should advice his patients.

These screening tests are medical interventions in which colon cancer can be discovered even before the tumors are actually formed. The doctor introduces a tube in the colon of the individual and so he can see inside the colon wall and check for nay abnormal growths that might have been developed.

As you can imagine, screenings are not very pleased, but they are the most efficient way to diagnose colon cancer in a stage in which it is still curable and because most symptoms do not occur until de cancer is very advanced, it can be the only way to diagnose the disease in such a phase.