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Colon Health
Statement of the theme
risk factors
prevention
Diet
Exercise
Dietary supplementation
No one really wants to talk about the subject of their colons. We all started out life with one, most of ours are working very well as we sit here today. But though speaking about the colon seems to be dirty or disagreeable, it is very important that we all pay attention to the colon. Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer death in the United States. It is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer among men and women within North America. And I am sad to say that 90% of all the patients who die because of colon cancer could probably have prevented their deaths, though a combination of healthy diet and simple diagnostic testing.
STATEMENT OF THE THEME: Many people think that they are not at risk...
It is true that it is most likely found in those patients over fifty years of age. But the things that we do to our bodies in the decades preceding our fifties can have a great impact on whether we develop colon cancer or not. Of course, genetic predisposition to colon cancer is something that none of us can prevent. It has been proven that a person with a primary family member (meaning a parent, sibling or child with colon cancer or the development of precancerous polyps has two to four times the risk of developing colon cancer. But even knowing this, there are things that we can do to protect ourselves and reduce our risk of dying from colon cancer.
We can definitely work to reduce our risk over a lifetime of developing colon cancer by following a proper diet, engaging in regular physical exercise and even by adding some dietary supplements.
DIET:…
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HEALTH COLON CANCER CASE STUDY Colon cancer is popular as rectal or bowel cancer. The condition refers to cancer development of rectum or colon throughout the large intestine. The cancer is caused by abnormal increase of cells with an ability of invading or spreading to subsequent body parts. Symptoms and signs of the cancer include blood in human stool, weight loss, changes in bowel movements, and continuously feeling tired (Young, Hobbs &
Sigmoidoscopy Screening using sigmoidoscopy usually results in minimal discomfort as it's quick, biopsy is possible in some cases and cleansing of the colon is not detailed while on the other hand it's disadvantageous in that only the lower colon and the rectum is viewed, minimal risk of perforating the lining of the colon and other procedures maybe required if problems are detected Services, 2011() Colonoscopy Colonoscopy allows for the viewing of the whole
, about 700,000 deaths per annum); Bone (Leukemia) (cancer of the blood or bone marrow and characterized by an abnormal proliferation of white blood cells); Lymphoma (Lymphatic) (cancer that begins in the lymphocytes of the immune system then presents as a solid tumor, many types, many treatments); Brain (Neuro/Nervous) (abnormal growth of cells within the brain, can be cancerous or non-cancerous, 50,000 U.S. cases per annum, 13,000 deaths per annum);
This type of prevention involves the complete removal of both breasts and all breast tissue. By having this operation individuals are able to completely eliminate the risk of having breast cancer. In most cases this procedure is only done on women who have many members of their family (mothers, grandmothers, aunts) that have been diagnosed or died from breast cancer. In such instances there is usually a genetic reason