A number of doctors performing colonoscopy procedure exams are more proficient in finding pre-cancerous polyp growths as compared to others and a new-fangled study has corroborated this expertise being linked to better results. The research indicated that there was lesser likelihood of colorectal cancer diagnosis during planned colonoscopy procedure exams when the physician conducting the test has a finding rate of non-cancerous polyp growths of a minimum of twenty percent. This would mean that in case of every one hundred colonoscopies conducted; the physician detected 1 or more pre-malignant polyp growths or adenomas when the patient was screened for a minimal of twenty percent of the times. Research co-investigator, Dr. Jaroslaw Regula from the Poland’s Inst. of Oncology stated that the  [...]

Bowel Cancer when diagnosed among people that are completely fit and healthy and no family history of the disease can be quite a bolt from the blue. Often a dot size of a red ink spot is the sole early sign of bowel cancer. Frequently, general practitioners tend to dismiss this symptom for piles telling their patients to not be worried about it. Bowel Cancer Screening can help spot the disease early on. However, regrettably in countries like England, bowel cancer screening is offered only when one turns sixty years old and above. But, Scotland and other countries in the European Union this screening is obtainable from fifty years of age. More than a hundred individuals are identified with bowel cancer on a daily basis in Britain. The death rates are soaring with sixteen thousand fatalities  [...]

A new-fangled study re-enforces the facts that those who indulged in cigarette smoking over protracted periods of time had a greater likelihood of developing colorectal cancer, despite adjustment of other risk factors. Michael J. Thun, M.D., M.S., the senior author of the study, the vice president of emeritus, epidemiology and surveillance research at the American Cancer Society stated that colorectal cancer needs to be included in the long listing of cancers that arise as an outcome of cigarette smoking. The findings have been printed in the December edition of ‘Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention- a medical journal of the American Association For Cancer Research as part of a singular spotlight on tobacco. Thun and his associates analysed the relationship in between long-standing  [...]

Laparoscopic surgery that has been around for nearly two decades for treating intestinal disorders, however its positive aspects has only lately been employed in treating rectal cancer patients. In a forthcoming study involving 103 candidates that undertook basic or ‘hand-aided’ laparoscopic surgery for treating rectal cancer, a group of colon and rectal surgeons from the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have illustrated that the minimally invasive technique could be as effectual as conventional open surgical intervention for rectal cancer treatment. The benefits of laparoscopic and other minimal invasive operative approaches are widely acknowledged. Subsequent to laparoscopic surgery there are briefer hospitalization, lesser pain endured and swifter recuperation.  [...]

Cancer Staging The staging of the cancer is the extent of cancer proliferation. When colon cancer gets diagnosed, the doctor would ascertain the stage in which it lies in order to decide the best course of treatment. The stages of colon cancer include: Stage 0 (Duke A stage) – The foremost stage wherein the cancer is restricted to the mucosa or inner lining of the colon or rectum – additionally known as carcinoma in situ. Stage I (Duke B stage) – When cancer has spread from the inner lining of the colon or rectum, but has still not reached past the rectum or colon wall. Stage II (Duke C stage) – The cancer has metastasized through or within the colon or rectum wall though not yet spread to the close by lymph nodes. Stage III (Duke D stage) – The cancer has spread to the close  [...]

Diagnosis & Tests Screening could help in diagnosing polyp growths prior to them turning malignant and for detecting colon cancer in its preliminary stages when the recovery rates are much higher. The widely used screening and analytic procedures for colorectal cancer are: Fecal Occult Test or Blood Stool Test – This procedure is used for checking any traces of blood in the stool or feces. This test could be conducted at the office of the general practitioner, the primary care doctor or in most cases a self-explanatory kit is provided for taking the sample at one’s home. The sample taken is then to be returned to the doctor’s office in order to be forwarded for laboratory analysis. A blood stool test does not have total accuracy as not all cancers can be identified since bleeding  [...]

Colorectal cancer or bowel cancer is a benign or malignant tumor or lump growths affecting the large bowel (colon and the rectum). Colorectal cancer is considered to be the widely prevalent cancerous form, according to the UK National Health Service, though the WHO has slotted it in second position after lung cancer. According to a U.S. study, there were increased numbers of cases in adults below 50 years of age being observed with colorectal cancer. Roughly, two percent of elderly persons past the age of fifty years would in the eventual course of time develop colorectal cancer in West Europe. Nearly forty percent of individuals that are diagnosed with the condition are by then in the final stages of the cancer. Colorectal cancer is an autosomal-governing predilection to preliminary inception  [...]