Cancer of the rectum

Rectal cancer is a malignant tumor formed from cells lining the rectum. This disease catches up with mainly older people and is 4-6% of all cancers. Moreover, there is a steady tendency to increase of morbidity in the world, especially in those countries where the level of economic development is high.

Colon cancer: forecast

Among the factors of prognosis the patient's age (the younger the patient the worse the prognosis), the degree of spread, depth of invasion of the cancer, presence of metastases. Overall, in the combined treatment five-year survival for rectal cancer ranges from 88% in cases of superficial infiltration of the tumor and absence of metastases to 46% in more serious cases. With timely successful postoperative radiation and chemotherapy treatment at the initial stage of rectal cancer is possible and the ten year survival rate, according to some Oncology clinics, up to 60%.

Causes of rectal cancer

It is authentically possible to speak not about the reasons, but only on the risk factors of this disease:

• Diet,
• The decrease in physical activity
• Inflammatory disease and rectal polyps, hemorrhoids,
• The human papilloma virus.

How to recognize colon cancer

the risk of developing new metastases.

In the future, it is necessary to observe preventive measures in order not to provoke a new wave of development of cancer cells. However, an ounce of prevention to healthy people.

Basic preventive measures:

• The presence in the diet of sufficient vegetables and fruits, vegetable oils, dairy products.
• Ensuring proper functioning of the intestines without constipation.
• The sedentary way of life.
• Timely treatment of colitis, intestinal polyps, fissures, hemorrhoids.
• Timely treatment to the doctor in case of detection of blood-tinged, mucous or purulent discharge from the anus.