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Colon cancer (also known as bowel cancer or colorectal cancer) is any cancer that affects the final part of the digestive system (usually the colon or rectum). It starts of as a polyp (fleshy growth) in the colon which then becomes cancerous and starts to multiply uncontrollably. Bowel cancer is believed to cause over 16,000 [...]
The most common treatment for colon cancer is surgery and the adjacent lymph nodes, the tumor, a small margin of the surrounding healthy bowel, are removed in the surgery. The long-term prognosis depend on whether the cancer has spread to other organs. Patients who’s cancer is limited to the superficial layer of the bowel wall, [...]