Colon Cancer, Detect Early to Save Your Life - What Are The Risk Factors? »
Posted By WikiMap 4 months ago in NewsRisk factors for colon cancer are increasing age, family history of colon cancer or polyps, previous colon cancer, and a history of inflammatory bowel disease. High fat and high protein diet with high intake of beef are also included especially with low fiber diet in meals.
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chevydog4 months ago
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My Dad died of colon cancer last year -- hard to watch. He was a classic candidate -- over 80; high fat diet; low fiber (vegetable was a foreign word to him); had backed of on beer some but was an above average drinker for many years.
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Think that it's interesting what the American Cancer Society says about risk in family history -- one person in the immediate family who gets colon cancer before age 50 or two people before age 60. Seems to me that that's an epidemic and that one would have to be a fool not to notice it.
With due respect to those people who work hard to develop stuff like this-- if we can't do a lot better, maybe we should just chuck in the towel. I know that there are a lot of practical probelms; including perhaps convincing ourselves that we know what we really don't know. But these kind of risk factors are not much help to anyone. -
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roxlvsjc4 months ago
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My dear brother-in-law died last August 29th of colon cancer; he was diagnosed on July 8th. He was 37 years old and left his wife (my sister), and two sons, 5 and 3. This was so incredibly tragic and completely unexpected. He had none of the risk factors except that he was a big red meat eater, and my sister discovered that defrosting in the microwave in the plastic packaging can change the molecular structure of the meat. She often did this. He had NO visible symptoms except for small amounts of blood in his stool that he attributed to hemorrhoids. He began having nausea two weeks before he was diagnosed, and some pain that he thought may be gallstones. When it was discovered he had cancer, he was in stage 4 with advanced tumors throughout his liver! The only family history of cancer was his grandma and two of her sisters died from breast cancer. The doctors think that the cancer may have "crossed over" and jumped a generation. All we know is that our wonderful, vibrant, joyful Heath is gone, and two little boys are missing their daddy. So sad.... Do the colon cancer screening test, even in your thirties, please!
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rosinmar4 months ago
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EVERYONE should be checked at the age of 30 and every 10 years thereafter. The only reason I am still alive (at age 45) is because my pre-canceous colon polyp presented as a hemmorrhoid which did not respond to the over-the-counter medicine. I had to CONVINCE the doctors to take a closer look and actually biopsy it. No family history. I am athletic and a healthy eater of my fair share of fruits and veggies.
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