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Colorectal cancer is becoming more common. Younger and younger people are suffering from it. Colorectal cancer grows slowly and it takes a long time to get over a lesion that is not yet malignant or the cancer is in its infancy. However, you need to do research.
Colorectal cancer , according to oncologists, has a lot to do with changes in our diet and irregular lifestyle. Colorectal cancer, however, is quite easy to detect or protect against. The more fat and red meat we eat that are not balanced by adequate amounts of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains - the greater the risk of colon cancer. Just by changing your diet to lower your risk of colon cancer.
How to detect colorectal cancer early
Colorectal cancer develops in younger and younger people. Therefore, the procedure needs to be slightly changed in order to detect changes early enough. Malignant neoplastic lesions usually develop from benign growths that appear in the mucous membranes of the large intestine close to 1.5 meters long and in the rectum. Usually these are polyps. It is worth removing them in order not to give the cancer a chance. A chance to detect a polyp is given by a colonoscopy - an examination in which the doctor carefully examines the walls of the intestine with the help of a probe inserted through the rectum. If slight benign changes are detected, they can be removed immediately and sent for histopathological examination to make sure that they are benign. Colonoscopy is recommended for people over 40 every 5 years. But in view of the lowering of the age at whichcolon canceris revealed, it is worth doing the first colonoscopy earlier - already around 35 years of age, especially if you had someone in your family who suffered from colorectal cancer. It is also worth having a fecal occult blood test every year. It is also a test to help detect colon cancer early.
Symptoms of colon cancer that should concern you.
Colonoscopy and fecal occult blood testing are also worth doing when you have symptoms that may suggest colorectal cancer. Basicsymptoms of colon cancerto:
- annoying constipation - when polyps inside the intestine grow, its internal cross-section decreases
- change in bowel habits that cannot be explained by a change in diet or lifestyle
- symptoms of colorectal cancer are also diarrhea combined with large amounts of gas that last for many weeks
- anemia, which is felt as weakness, lack of previous fitness, greater susceptibility to fatigue
- pain in the lower abdomen and lower back, discomfort
- nausea, vomiting, difficulty swallowing
- feeling of incomplete bowel movement
- rectal bleeding - traces of blood on paper or underwear.
These symptoms of colon cancer may mean that the cancer is already underway. The faster we react and let doctors act, the greater the chance that we will recover.