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2. What you need to know about colon-cancer symptoms, diagnosis ...

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   Colon-cancer treatment. Treatment varies depending on how far the cancer has advanced and where in the bowel it is, but it can include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy. ...

3. Colorectal cancer - Wikipedia

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   Colorectal cancer (CRC), also known as bowel cancer, colon cancer, or rectal cancer, is the development of cancer from the colon or rectum (parts of the large intestine). [5] Signs and symptoms may include blood in the stool , a change in bowel movements , weight loss, abdominal pain and fatigue. [ 9 ]

4. Cancer treatment - Wikipedia

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   There are five different stages of colon cancer, and these five stages all have treatment: Stage 0, is where the patient is required to undergo surgery to remove the polyp (American Cancer Society [44]). Stage 1, depending on the location of the cancer in the colon and lymph nodes, the patient undergoes surgery just like Stage 0.

5. Colectomy - Wikipedia

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   Colectomy as treatment for colorectal cancer also includes lymphadenectomy, or removal of surrounding lymph nodes, which may be done for staging of the cancer or removal of cancerous nodes. [11] More extensive lymphadenectomy is sometimes accomplished by the removal of the mesocolon , the fatty tissue adjacent to the colon, which contains blood ...

6. A new type of bacteria was found in 50% of colon cancers ...

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   Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and is expected to kill more than 53,000 people in the nation in 2024, according to the American Cancer Society.

7. 5 cancer types where screenings save the most lives - AOL

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   Breast cancer was the only type for which treatment advances prevented more deaths. ... For colon cancer, colonoscopy combines screening with treatment (polypectomy), "which has changed the ...