Who gets colon cancer? It is never quite known who gets colon cancer but there are risk factors for it. Colon cancer does kill about “…40,000 in America annually” (Adrouny, Richard 1). It has become the fourth most frequent type of cancer. Men will probably get it more than women but even though colon cancer is more prevalent in men than women it still has a high percent in women. Women still tend to get breast cancer and lung cancer before colon cancer though. The biggest risk factor of colon cancer is the age. Most get colon cancer after the age of sixty but it can start as early as the forties and fifties. In extreme cases you can get colon cancer at the age of twenty but that’s extremely rare. Also diets can increase your risk of colon cancer. If your diet consists of low in fiber and high in fat then that will do it. If your family has had colon cancer you could be at risk for it too because it runs in the family. In conclusion we will never know who exactly gets it and why but there can be ways that we can prevent colon cancer.
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There are six stages of the colon cancer. The first one is classified as stage A and is the tumor involving the mucosa only. The next stage is called the B1 stage and it is when the tumor is within the walls and the nodes are negative. The B2 stage is very similar to the B1 stage but it just has an extension through the wall and it still has negative nodes. The fourth stage is the C1 stage and it has the tumor within the wall but the nodes are now positive. C2 stage has the extension through the wall and has positive nodes like stage C1. The finally stage is the stage D and it is when it has distant metastatic disease. Now that you know the stages of colon cancer you can understand the treatments you can get for colon
Prevention of the cancer Along the same lines as who gets colon cancer we can prevent it by just doing the opposite of some of those …show more content…
There are six stages of the colon cancer. The first one is classified as stage A and is the tumor involving the mucosa only. The next stage is called the B1 stage and it is when the tumor is within the walls and the nodes are negative. The B2 stage is very similar to the B1 stage but it just has an extension through the wall and it still has negative nodes. The fourth stage is the C1 stage and it has the tumor within the wall but the nodes are now positive. C2 stage has the extension through the wall and has positive nodes like stage C1. The finally stage is the stage D and it is when it has distant metastatic disease. Now that you know the stages of colon cancer you can understand the treatments you can get for colon