Sorry this is going to be a bit gross but thank you for your time.

I am 19 and have no history of colon cancer or really cancer in my family.

For the past 3 months I have been having thin stool/flat stool. There was no blood I could see.

I decided to really change my diet over the weekend and started taking benefiber. My stool were very healthy looking. This morning I had ribbon shaped stool.

Another thing to ad I am a bit of a hypochondriac and I really was straining last week and gave myself hemroids.

I went to the bathroom again and there was a tiny bit of bright red blood on the toilet paper and small amounts in the stool.

I am going to the doctor today but please I am scared out of my mind. What do you think?

I am 17 years old. I work out often, don’t eat red meat and my diet consists of mainly fiber. I have Irritable Bowel Syndrome ( the condition in which you’re constipated). I get full easily, have stomach cramps, have a hard time with bowel movements, and I always feel tired. Lately, I have been losing weight but I’ve felt bloated too. Just today, I found blood in my stool. Since my family has a history of colon cancer, I’m really scared that I have it too. But I’m so young!! Can someone help me out?!

does anyone know if colon cancer is a fast or slow growing disease? i’ve tried to look online but i haven’t really found the answer.

I was reading recently that insurance companies are now using family history to calculate rates and even deny coverage where they can perceive a loss or bad investment. I believe most corporate employees are protected from such scrutiny and must be allowed to join group policies except where pre-existing conditions allow the insurance company to opt out. But, self-employed or employees of say a small private school may not he able to obtain reasonably priced coverage because their Mom’s dad had a heart attack, colon cancer, etc…

I am 16 years old, a couch potato but I jump on a trampoline every day to every other day, a tend to stand alot but mostly sit down. i must say i do have a bad diet, when school let out i came to my cousins where they only have 1 meal a day and ive been here for almost 4 weeks and have lost 20 pounds! i thought it was because i was staying over here but i was a little suspicious since i have not lost a pound in years. for the past 2 months i have had blood in my stool and becuase it was hard i suspected it was a hemmorhoid and then it just stopped about a week ago altogether. just yesterday my right side around the bottom of my right rib cage started having minor pains so i looked it up and read it could be colorectal or colon cancer. can you guys help me. im about to cry and im only 16. i dont want to die young. i was about to ask out a girl that means the world to me around the time i went back to school and i dont think i can be with her if i find out i cant spend the rest of my life with her. shes my everything. <3

My dad has no health insurance because he was recently fired from his job. He has always had constipation and lethargy due to a poor diet, lack of exercise, and lack of sleep. The other day he told me that he had a strange sense of fullness. We had dinner at 8 pm at night and he told me he was still full at 2 pm the next day. His exact words after dinner were "I could have eaten more" and then the next day he says "I feel really full for some reason". I thought it was strange and then on in the week he told me he had a bloody stool. He is trying to calm himself down by saying it is just hemorroids but I think it could be early stages of colon cancer and he is deluding himself. Without health insurance, what should he do?

I have some questions bout colon cancer. How does this disease Develop? how common is this disease what possibilities are there for recovery? what treatments will be necessary and what is the survival rate for patients with this disease

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) – A Tri-Cities health board reversed itself Wednesday and voted against endorsing a colon cancer awareness campaign that uses billboards saying, "What’s up your butt?"
The Tri-City Herald reports the Benton Franklin Health District commissioners responded to complaints the ads are in poor taste.
The butt billboards have been displayed in Yakima to raise colorectal cancer awareness and encourage people to get screened for the disease.

i get nauseous regularly, maybe a couple days a week ill have a few minute phase and then it goes away [almost always at night.] this has been happening since i last vomited in june, before i didnt have that feeling [i think its partially due to the fact that i am severely afraid of throwing up.] i also have extremely varying stools, maybe once a month ill try to go to the bathroom and a bit of mucus comes out instead, and once or twice before ive had pencil stools. andd other than that i get different [but considered normal] stools, and my diet is diverse so im pretty sure thats why. i dont bleed when i go to the bathroom nor is it painful.my grandfather had colon cancer but he was a heavy drinker/smoker. im 14, female, and have had my period for 2.5 years. im a vegetarian and i dance about 10 hours a week, though i got a fracture one month ago so i havent been able to properly exercise since then. i know that its rare for young people but the awkward stools/nausea for the past few months has started to worry me. thank you for any advice i really appreciate it, i dont want to get a colonoscopy or something :/

Recently I’ve been having bowel movements every morning but the stools are thinner than they used to be, not too much comes out and I haven’t been had an "s" shaped bowel movement in awhile. I don’t have much stomach pain, just some aches every now and then. I bled once about a few months ago when i had a bowel movement and i was worried then. I’m worried again in regards to colon cancer. I am 19 years old and wondering why my stool is thinner and smaller..does that mean colon cancer??

I’m 20 years old, male from Toronto Canada.
I’ve grown up not necessarily the most healthy active young man but towards the last 5 years of my life I took up running, bmxing ect.. all kinds of sports. I’ve started to eat consciously to what I’m putting into my body.

September 2010, I was 6’4", and healthy for my weight, 145lbs.

As of recently, I have lost 10 pounds without change to my diet or lifestyle.
More recently than the weight loss, I’ve lost my appetite, which usually was quite ferocious.
My bowl movements have changed severely, now more rapid and frequent. Also discolored, thinner and less consistent. This is accompanied by pains in my abdominal region, aches, cramps, and more gas than usual for me, a lot more. Often I find myself keeling over at work or school and feeling as if there was broken glass inside my digestive track. Before this came and passed a day here and there, now it’s daily, some hours go by without a sign, but most days are a frequent discomfort.

In the last 3 years I have had traces of blood in my stool roughly 3 times.

Also I’ve had trouble sleeping, and when I do sleep, I still never feel rested.

I’m wondering if this seems to be like signs of Colon Cancer? My grandfathers both have passed away from what began as Colon Cancer..

I do intend to not monkey around and go see my Doctor soon but.. I’m just wondering what the general consensus is about this? If it sounds like I’m just recovering from some bug or if this seems like something to be worried about.. I’ve never heard of a 20 yearold with such Cancer.

I’m 20 years old, male from Toronto Canada.
I’ve grown up not necessarily the most healthy active young man but towards the last 5 years of my life I took up running, bmxing ect.. all kinds of sports. I’ve started to eat consciously to what I’m putting into my body.

September 2010, I was 6’4", and healthy for my weight, 145lbs.

As of recently, I have lost 10 pounds without change to my diet or lifestyle.
More recently than the weight loss, I’ve lost my appetite, which usually was quite ferocious.
My bowl movements have changed severely, now more rapid and frequent. Also discolored, thinner and less consistent. This is accompanied by pains in my abdominal region, aches, cramps, and more gas than usual for me, a lot more. Often I find myself keeling over at work or school and feeling as if there was broken glass inside my digestive track. Before this came and passed a day here and there, now it’s daily, some hours go by without a sign, but most days are a frequent discomfort.

In the last 3 years I have had traces of blood in my stool roughly 3 times.

Also I’ve had trouble sleeping, and when I do sleep, I still never feel rested.

I’m wondering if this seems to be like signs of Colon Cancer? My grandfathers both have passed away from what began as Colon Cancer..

I do intend to not monkey around and go see my Doctor soon but.. I’m just wondering what the general consensus is about this? If it sounds like I’m just recovering from some bug or if this seems like something to be worried about.. I’ve never heard of a 20 yearold with such Cancer.

I dont want to get them treated, only removed, but if they are just going to come back them Id rather just leave them alone, but Im scared about the possible risk of colon cancer. Has anyone had them removed, if so how do they do it.

Ok so this started a little over a month ago. It started with a tooth ache, then my lower abdomen started bothering me, two days later, I was in and out of the bathroom about 6 times in two hours feeling like I was going to have diarrhea or throw up. I went to the dentist because I though it had something to do with my tooth, which he said I was just grinding my teeth. So I went to the doctor two days later, and he said it was just intestinal cramping. It was still bothering me two days later, but it was like a dull ache with my stools being all over the place. ie. loose, diarrhea, excess mucus in them. So I went back again and he sent me to have a CT scan and X-Ray of my abdomen, which all came back negative. So he then sent me to see a specialist on May 19th, I went to him, and he gave me some Donnaltal (sp?) and said to come back in a month if it isn’t any better. Well it hasn’t gotten any worse, but it hasn’t really gotten a lot better, I bought some Bennefiber and have been taking that, and trying to make sure I get enough fiber into my diet for about two weeks now. Well sometimes when I wipe I see like little specs of what look light orange, or maybe even light red, but pretty sure it’s light orange specs in my stool or on the toilet paper (no bigger then maybe a grain of Kosher salt) Saturday and today my stool smelled real bad. Wondering if maybe this is Colon Cancer, IBS, or maybe just IBS with anxiety. not sure I can wait another two weeks to go see the specialist again. Again I am a 23 year old male, who is overweight but working on changing that once I figure out what this is.
I’ve also had blood test for Diabetes, Kidney, and Liver Function. Urine test were negative too.
Keep leaving stuff out, sometimes it kind of looks like there is undigested food in my stool.

Yesterday when i went to the bathroom i had bright red blood on the toilet paper and a little blood in the water. I went another time later that night and the same thing happened but i had less blood. Could this be colon cancer? The stool was completely normal color so iv ruled out internal bleeding higher up the intestinal track but it still worries me. First off im 18 years old and have NO family history of cancer and have never had anything wrong with me before. Iv heard that a cause of this could be internal hemroids bursting. Can anyone confirm this. I am overweight and have had hemroids before so im really hoping that this is it. I also dont have a strict diet so not much Fiber. My stool is usually hard. Im going to eat foods with fiber and drink alot of water and update tommarow. Also i really really dont want to have to deal with a doctor at all. So please ease my mind thanks.
Ok so i woke up this morning and went and still had blood. Hope thats normal. If it is a Hemoroid or fissur any idea on how long it would take to stop bleeding? Thanks for the posts so far. You’ve been really helpfull, and made me feel a lot better.

my dad was diagnosed with colon cancer. they had it cut out and said it was in his early stages. he is now taking 6 months treatment to make sure it doesn’t come back. the other day i was discussing this with my friend and she said her grandma also caught cancer in it’s early stages but still died. can the same thing happen to my dad?

My uncle had colon cancer and after chemo the cancer is no longer detectable. He is still in pain and in poor health. The doctor said that he has air in his colon. What causes this? The doctor seemed very worried and I am trying to help my aunt find info on it.

I’m sure some are thinking I’m panicking and I probably am.

The problem is, as of Friday, I started to experience severe stomach aches (it’s now Wednesday). Just right now I had an hour-long stomach ache which was probably the worst pain i ever experienced in my life, which lasted for an hour. The stomach ache would occur once per day for no longer than an hour between 7 to 8PM. My stool was normal up until two nights ago it turned black, however tonight it turned more into a light black/greenish color.

Like I said, I’m sure I’m panicking but just to make myself feel better, I decided to proceed with asking this. Do you think I have colon cancer based on what I described above? I’m sure some will just say "go see a doctor", which I have an appointment tomorrow, so I really don’t feel like hearing the typical. I just want educated guesses to help me get in a better state-of-mind for the time being.

As for my background; I do not drink or smoke. The only stuff I took recently was a natural testosterone booster (which is legal). I got off of it a few days ago after I experienced these stomach aches. My diet is pretty clean. I usually only eat chicken breasts (sometimes pre-marinated & frozen from the store), tuna fish in water, oatmeal, corn, lettuce, whey protein shakes & baked potatoes. Some days when I feel like pigging out a little with carbs, I make it clean with stuff such as yogurt, orange juice, burritos on whole wheat torillas, which I eat those foods occasionally.

I also exercise regularly. I jog about four miles per day and make it to the gym every other day. Due to my clean diet & my routine, I am pretty shocked to experience anything wrong with myself, physically. I don’t get sick, at all unless it’s allergies. Also, there is no cancer history among my family, excluding my grandma on my dad’s side, who had breast cancer. Other than that, my family was pretty clean from cancer, however, you never know if it will strike me or not. Don’t expect everything to follow a pattern or for things to be that predictable. The unexpected can always occur.

Thanks. I’m only looking for serious answers, seeing this is based on a serious topic.

Best answer will get 10 points.
EDIT: I also weighed myself today and I am 161 pounds, which is down from Sunday (three days ago) when it read 164 pounds.
I forgot to add I’m 20 years old….

I had stage IIIC colon cancer earlier on this year, and went through 6 months of chemo for it. Last week a precancerous polyp was found in the colon.

What would the treatment be? Just the removal, or chemo as well?

I’m really scared as to what happens now.

I am 14 and have Crohn’s Disease in my colon, and nowhere else. I have had it since I was three. I was looking at Crohn’s on a website called www.ehealthmd.com and it says ‘PEOPLE WITH CROHN’S DISEASE HAVE A SLIGHTLY HIGHER INCIDENCE OF COLON CANCER THAN THE GENERAL POPULATION!!!’ I am so freaked out! I don’t want to get colon cancer!!! It also says that Crohn’s patients should get regular screenings 8 years after diagnosis and it’s been more than that, and I only have colonoscopies every 3 or 4 years or less! I don’t want to get colon cancer. I didn’t even know that people with Crohn’s were more likely to get it.

I have slightly norrower than normal crap for the last couple days. Do I have colon cancer?

Abdominal distension: Nope
Abdominal pain: Nope
Unexplained, persistent nausea or vomiting: Nope
Unexplained weight loss: Nope
Change in frequency or character of stool (bowel movements): Yep
Small-caliber (narrow) or ribbon-like stools: Yep
Sensation of incomplete evacuation after a bowel movement: Nope
Age. About 90 percent of people diagnosed with colon cancer are older than 50: I’m 21.
Colorectal polyps cancer or polyps: Not that I know of.
Intestinal obstruction repair conditions: Nope
Inherited disorders that affect the colon: I might have hemmorides, thouh it usually doesn’t cause a problem for me. Basiclly it’s not active most of the time.
Family history of colon cancer and colon polyps: Only my grandma, nobody else even polyps.
Diet. Colon cancer and rectal cancer may be associated with a diet low in fiber and high in fat and calories: Probably
A sedentary lifestyle: Yeah, but do try to get at least a little bit of exercise each day.
Diabetes: Nope
Obesity: I’m only 145 pounds
Smoking. I don’t smoke
Alcohol: I don’t drink
Growth hormone disorder: I don’t think so.
Radiation therapy for cancer: I’ve never had cancer or anyone in my family except for my granda who was a smoker.

2 days ago I had a really bad pain above my pubic area. Very sharp pains I have never felt before. I panicked a little making my blood pressure rise and heart rate. I went to the ER but as soon as I got there pain subsided. A chest X ray and stomach to Lower waist X-ray was done. Doctor tells me I am backed up. I felt embarrassed because I didn’t realized the pain was due to that. I was given a prescription magnesium citrate but pharmacy was closed so I bought over the counter Milk of magnesia. I took 4 teaspoons about 2 hours ago and still nothing. The top of my stomach looks bloated but not hard to touch. I have been eating like normal breakfast and dinner. I am worried because I don’t keep track of when I go. I don’t even have the urge to go either, now I am also worried if I eat the more bowels will be backed up. I 42 years old and have never cleansed my system or taken magnesium citrate. I know it’s important to go after every meal but my system is usually 2-3 days. Any advice is helpful since I am so worried. Thanks
I hear noises in my stomach it’s crazy and the thought of colon cancer just gave me a wake up call. My mom used to always tell me to cleanse my system once in a while but never did. I remember having the urge to go at one point before the sharp pain came but the urge just went away. Thanks for the comments very helpful and definitely getting the magnesium citrate.

IF SOMEONE HAS COLON CANCER AND IT IS IN THE BONES OR HAS SPREAD TO THE BONES AND IS GOING THROUGH TREATMENT IS THERE A GOOD CHANCE OF IT BEING CURED?

I either have Crohn’s disease or colon cancer, on Thursday morning I go in for a colonoscopy.
I’m only 18 so I’m really nervous.
I know a lot about both things, but what do they do once they diagnose you?
Like, what’s the first step?
How soon after the colonoscopy will they know?

There are no cancer cells in our bodies , but an environmental cause free radical mutation from chlorine (carcinogen.)into our rapid growth cells, It reacts directly with amino acids in the DNA helix mutation causing rapid growth cancer cells.
all human carcinogen (cancer causing).cancer cells in our bodies have the same DNA mutation foot print. Finding the reason is a cells DNA is most vulnerable during rapid growth.
These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size…because cancer takes so long between the time you’re exposed to chlorine free radical mutation, to the rapid growth cells during ,rapid growth .Mutated cells Go dormant. Intel the cells are re-injured (damaged) this time you get your cancer !
Chloramines, like chlorine, are oxidators. Chloramines can kill bacteria by penetration of the cell wall and blockage of the metabolism. Monochloramine is the most effective disinfectant. It reacts directly with amino acids in the bacterial DNA. During deactivation of microorganisms chloramines destroy the shell which protects the rapid growth cells.
AMAS blood test Requesting an Anti-Malignan Antibody (AMAS), which is "looking" for an antibody, a protein the body produces against foreign matter, in this case cancer cells. It is a new test and if run twice, the false positives and false negatives drops to under 1%. It can mean life or death! If you find you have cancer, the odds are that there is a 99% chance of a cure Testing for AMAS can pretty much let you come to the conclusion that cancer is hiding somewhere in your body, should the test results come back positive. This will allow you to start treatment before the cancer has a chance to spread. Whether it is breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer or some other form of a common cancer, AMAS should be a part of your personal checkup and should be requested at your doctor’s visit.
3 Originally, the pregnancy test was used as a cancer test. Cancer patients, either men or women in menopause, were "pregnant" when they took this test A quantitative test was developed which measures HCG. A reading of 50 and below showed no malignancy and 50 and above was more likely to show malignancy. Obviously the quantitative test could be used to screen for cancer. According to these findings, any man, or any woman who has since ceased having a menstrual period, could take a pregnancy test and if it registered positive may indeed have a lurking cancer.
For those individuals who are not inclined to have regular checkups, this would be an invaluable means to find out if there was a malignancy in the body. If the pregnancy test results in a positive reading, than the blood test, AMAS, would be helpful in reaching a final medical conclusion. Done twice, the AMAS test is undeniably reliable and the amount of money saved, sparing the patient test after test, would be enormous.