For the past few days I’ve been having with really flat crap, or really small crap where I’m only getting one small piece of crap out per day. Is this normal or is this 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): nope
Small-caliber (narrow) or ribbon-like stools: I dont’ think so?
Sensation of incomplete evacuation after a bowel movement: Nope
Rectal pain: Nope
Age. About 90 percent of people diagnosed with colon cancer are older than 50: I’m 20.
A personal history of colorectal cancer or polyps: Not that I know of.
Inflammatory intestinal 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. My parents who are over 50 both got colonoscapes, neither one of them had any 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 142 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.

Hopefully it’s just my Ocd and gad doing this to me.

I have been to a doctor before on this, but he just didn’t pay much attention to this fear.

about 5-6 days ago i had my hemorrhoids flare up and there was a little blood on my toilet paper and a few drops in the toilet. after the second day i used preparation H and it went away the next day however the day before it went away i started to feel slightly gassy and had some slight pain in my intestines. i still have that now. i don’t feel any different other than some gassyness and a slight burning in my colon ( it kind of blends in with gas pain). i would go to the doctor and ask but i dont have health care. i tend to worry alot about minute things but some symptoms sound like colorectal cancer. im also 20 years old have a pretty clean bill of health and im pretty sure no one in my family has had issues with this kind of cancer.

any idea what this might be?
i should also add that i dont have diarrhea and i dont think im constipated. but when i do have a movement its small.
other symptoms-
odd sharp pain near belly button
very slight burning when i urinate sometimes.
my diet usually consists of a bowl of cereal in the morning, usually a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch, and just about anything for dinner. fruits and vegetables are scarce.

How prevalent is rectal bleeding in colorectal cancer, do tumors always bleed? Would two Fecal occult bleeding test administered two months apart catch bleeding that was from a tumor?

I have done some research on this subject and it is very unfair in my opinion. This is what i would like to hear from you and that is your opinion. I have a friend who did 21 years of active duty military service and retired from the air force at the age of 41. He has been employed in the construction industry as metal building erector since his retirement. Three years after retirement his wife wanted and was granted a divorce along with 49% of his military retirement. He was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in Sept.07 and has underwent pre surgery radiation and chemo and had the surgery in Feb 08. He is now having post surgery chemo to help prevent the cancer from returning. This man has spent all his savings on medical treatment and other care and here is the big one.He has been denied any type of government assistanc except for ten dollars a month in food stamps and is about to be evicted from his home. What is wrong with the system or do i just not understand?

"A new study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden shows that the American health care system outperforms the socialized systems in Europe in getting new medicines to cancer patients. The difference saves lives, and the existing Western European systems force people to die at higher rates from the same cancers, although the Telegraph buries that lede. The researchers studied Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and the US, as well as 19 European countries, with a total population of 984 million, and looked at access to 67 newer cancer drugs. They found that the proportions of female cancer patients surviving five years beyond diagnosis in France, Spain, Germany, Italy were 71 per cent, 64 per cent, 63 per cent and 63 per cent respectively. In the UK it was 53 per cent. Among men the proportions still alive at five years in the same countries were 53 per cent, 50 per cent, 53 per cent and 48 per cent. Again in the UK it was lower at 43 per cent."

The survivability rates beyond five years of diagnosis in the United States are far in excess of all of these socialized countries with socialized medicine. Here’s the point, though, and it takes a while in the story for it to show up. Here’s the reference in the story about the American system. "Dr. Nils Wilking, a clinical oncologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, said: "Our report highlights that in many countries new drugs are not reaching patients quickly enough and that this is having an adverse impact on patient survival. Where you live can determine whether you receive the best available treatment or not. To some extent this is determined by economic factors, but much of the variation between countries remains unexplained. In the US we have found that the survival of cancer patients is significantly related to the introduction of new oncology drugs.’ … The proportion of colorectal cancer patients with access to the drug Avastin was 10 times higher in the US than it was in Europe, with the UK having a lower uptake than the European average."

United States health care saves more lives than socialized medicine, and yet socialized medicine is one of the building blocks of the Democrat Party’s agenda, particularly Mrs. Bill Clinton’s agenda. Now, it’s the same thing with tax revenue that we were just discussing. If current tax rates are producing record amounts of revenue and rapid economic growth, why would you change it? If the US health care system is the best in the world, despite its flaws — if it’s the best in the world and people who come down with deadly diseases survive much longer here because of access to drugs much sooner and much cheaper than people who live in socialized countries have access to it — why in the world would you change it? Well, there’s a simple answer. Socialists want control. They want as much control over us as they can get. It’s about power. It’s about enlarging the State. It’s about making you dependent, and that eliminates your threatening their power. The less wealth you have, the less mobility, freedom, the less of a threat you are to their power. This is liberalism through and through.

Now you might ask: "How come so many average Americans are liberals and they’re willing to give up this power?" Because they’re dupes. I’m talking about the leaders. I’m talking about the people in Washington. I’m talking about the think tank leaders. I’m talking about the special interest groups. Liberals in this country, these doofuses that write the hateful comments on Internet blogs, they’re just unhappy people in general. They want everybody else to be miserable with them anyway. They’re probably jealous of people who do better than them and they want those people taken down a peg or two. They want everything the same. Everything the same. No inequality. No inequity. They want outcome of results. They’re sickos and they’re miserable and they’re unhappy and they want everybody to join them in that. But you talk about ideology? Liberals believe this and conservatives believe this. It’s really very, very simple. Conservatives believe in individual liberty and freedom and ambition so that people can become the best they can be, because it is believed that the greatest society and the greatest culture, the greatest country, is achieved by the greatest number of people pursuing excellence. Liberals don’t have that faith in people and they don’t want that kind of freedom. They want to be in charge. They want to have the power and they want people dependent because that is what enriches them in every which way you can imagine.
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My dad has colorectal cancer in stage four. The doctor wont operate becuase it’s already spread to his liver and lungs. He wanted to start chemo right away. The doctor has told him to be careful in the cold weather, watch his diet, be careful with hot and cold food/drinks, and to rinse his mouth out with listerine througout the day. He has done everything by the book but….HE’S STILL SMOKING! This isnt the cause of his cancer…we dont think…but he just wont quit! Will the chemo even work if he is still smoking???
I forgot…he went in today for his chemo and they are going to admit him to the hospital for a week becuase he’s dehydrated from vomiting and he has an infection in his mouth. Is this infection likely caused from teh smoking??? And he wont tell the doctor that he’s smoking either.

"A new study by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden shows that the American health care system outperforms the socialized systems in Europe in getting new medicines to cancer patients. The difference saves lives, and the existing Western European systems force people to die at higher rates from the same cancers, although the Telegraph buries that lede. The researchers studied Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, South Africa and the US, as well as 19 European countries, with a total population of 984 million, and looked at access to 67 newer cancer drugs. They found that the proportions of female cancer patients surviving five years beyond diagnosis in France, Spain, Germany, Italy were 71 per cent, 64 per cent, 63 per cent and 63 per cent respectively. In the UK it was 53 per cent. Among men the proportions still alive at five years in the same countries were 53 per cent, 50 per cent, 53 per cent and 48 per cent. Again in the UK it was lower at 43 per cent."

The survivability rates beyond five years of diagnosis in the United States are far in excess of all of these socialized countries with socialized medicine. Here’s the point, though, and it takes a while in the story for it to show up. Here’s the reference in the story about the American system. "Dr. Nils Wilking, a clinical oncologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, said: "Our report highlights that in many countries new drugs are not reaching patients quickly enough and that this is having an adverse impact on patient survival. Where you live can determine whether you receive the best available treatment or not. To some extent this is determined by economic factors, but much of the variation between countries remains unexplained. In the US we have found that the survival of cancer patients is significantly related to the introduction of new oncology drugs.’ … The proportion of colorectal cancer patients with access to the drug Avastin was 10 times higher in the US than it was in Europe, with the UK having a lower uptake than the European average."

United States health care saves more lives than socialized medicine, and yet socialized medicine is one of the building blocks of the Democrat Party’s agenda, particularly Mrs. Bill Clinton’s agenda. Now, it’s the same thing with tax revenue that we were just discussing. If current tax rates are producing record amounts of revenue and rapid economic growth, why would you change it? If the US health care system is the best in the world, despite its flaws — if it’s the best in the world and people who come down with deadly diseases survive much longer here because of access to drugs much sooner and much cheaper than people who live in socialized countries have access to it — why in the world would you change it? Well, there’s a simple answer. Socialists want control. They want as much control over us as they can get. It’s about power. It’s about enlarging the State. It’s about making you dependent, and that eliminates your threatening their power. The less wealth you have, the less mobility, freedom, the less of a threat you are to their power. This is liberalism through and through.

Now you might ask: "How come so many average Americans are liberals and they’re willing to give up this power?" Because they’re dupes. I’m talking about the leaders. I’m talking about the people in Washington. I’m talking about the think tank leaders. I’m talking about the special interest groups. Liberals in this country, these doofuses that write the hateful comments on Internet blogs, they’re just unhappy people in general. They want everybody else to be miserable with them anyway. They’re probably jealous of people who do better than them and they want those people taken down a peg or two. They want everything the same. Everything the same. No inequality. No inequity. They want outcome of results. They’re sickos and they’re miserable and they’re unhappy and they want everybody to join them in that. But you talk about ideology? Liberals believe this and conservatives believe this. It’s really very, very simple. Conservatives believe in individual liberty and freedom and ambition so that people can become the best they can be, because it is believed that the greatest society and the greatest culture, the greatest country, is achieved by the greatest number of people pursuing excellence. Liberals don’t have that faith in people and they don’t want that kind of freedom. They want to be in charge. They want to have the power and they want people dependent because that is what enriches them in every which way you can imagine.

My daughter who was recently diagnosed with Colorectal Cancer a week ago, won’t actually begin her chemo until the 19th of March (today is the 10th). She had her "port" put in on the 8th (Friday). Why does it take so long before they can start the treatments??? This is so incredibly scary!!!

To whomever answered my other questions regarding her cancer… God Bless you…. you told me that colorectal cancer was easily treated (which is what she said her Oncologist told her) because so far, the cat scan (done last Sunday on the 4th) showed that her other vital organs were clear so far. We are praying so hard that she comes through this… but why is it they can’t "stage" her cancer until the surgery… and why is it taking so long to start her treatment??? Aren’t these cells spreading in the meantime???? (I’m freaking out, I’m sorry!!) Thanks for any insight and for whomever sent me all those links… God Bless you…. I will be checking each one out.

In other words, excluding a very bloody bowel movement, what is the other common complain that people who are then diagnosed with colorectal cancer, brought to the doctor, since blood in the stool can be caused by many things and 99 percent of the time is diagnosed as something other than cancer ( although blood in the stool you should ALWAYS see a doctor no matter what)…Anyways i had a friend who had constant diahrrea, and he was getting it everyday for a while, and his bowel movements where in crazy amounts daily…like 4-6 plus in a day, everyday in the form of diahrreah…so i was just wondering..he was also a rare case as he is under 30 years of age!!( and 90-95% of colon cancer patients are aged 50 or older statistically) , but is fine now though thanks to modern medicine. anyways this has been on my mind lately, and im pretty young to think of this stuff as my doctor told me …(19), but i always worry about this stuff for some reason.

i was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in september 07. I have since gone through chemo and radiation treatment and had surgery on the 28th of february 08. I developed problems after the surgery and have not been able to work but three weeks since september 07. I am a military retiree and most of the hospital bills have been taken care of but money for everyday living expenses such as rent,utilities.groceries has also ran out. Due to being a military retiree I am not eligible for any government programs and i was just wondering if someone had any information on any other programs that i could check into. I am not asking for a handout as i fully intend on paying any money i might receive for assistance back in full. thank you for any assistance in this matter

my father, aged 57 years, weight: 78 kgs
Past History:

30/07/2004: colorectal anal cancer. APR surgery with colostomy

12/08/2004: cycle of 3 Chemo prescribed by oncology physician, drugs prescribed: oxaliplatin, leucovorin etc.

3/11/2004: Repeat cycle of above 3 chemo with radiation therapy.

25/06/2008: little raised CEA around 25. Whole body PET Scan is normal.

Now my father has re-occurence of cancer with badly damaged liver & a condition called hepatomegaly with metastasis. its stage 4. Can anybody please advice me more regarding the options of treatment, how much time does he have. He had a pathological fracture last week at the outer thigh-hip joint & underwent DHS surgery. The Dr feels the cancer has also spread in his bones. So he will be immobile (in bed) for atleast 5 weeks.

please explain what is hepatomegaly with metastasis. guide & help me. aany direction u point out or guidance u give is above all forms of thanks.

I took a laxative about 2 months ago to clear up my first case of constipation since I was a kid (I’m coming up on 30). Ever since then I’ve felt like there is something lodged in my descending colon. I went to see the doctor about it out of fear that I had colorectal cancer. They performed a colonoscopy and nothing showed up, no polyps or even hemrroids. I don’t have diahrrea or excessive gas, so it isn’t IBS. The doctor seems to think that it’s my diet. But I eat healthy and have never had this problem before. Now I have a constant feeling of pressure/discomfort in my descending colon and never goes away. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks ahead of time.
This is a serious question. Those of you who bring up gay sex and hamsters will be promptly reported.

My colorectal nurse has been so so helpful, and has been so supportive in so many ways. I’ve now finished all treatment and operations, and was wondering what can I buy her as a thank you gift?

Nothing too personal, or inappropriate, but something more than a box of chocolates!

My sister died of colorectal cancer 6 years ago, last month her two sons was diagnose with familial polyposis, one of them the biopsy came out as malignant already. The only treatment for this we were told is to removed the colon and be on a colostomy for the rest of their lives, but they are still so young, 29 and 28 years old, no wife nor kids.

I was looking at some stats and I noticed that hispanics have the lowest rate of colorectal cancer in the usa, lower than whites and asians. Is this due to diet, or is it genetic?

I have stage 4 colorectal cancer, in liver and lymph nodes,, on avastin, since doc 05 the tumors have decreased half in size but oncologist is still saying i am terminal and no surgery can be done. Went to Duke Cancer center in NC and they said the same thing. If anyone has had or has this type of cancer i would love to talk to you ! I was given 5 to ten months to live sept 04, then got very bad, went to Duke for second opinion, they put me on the avastin but only gave me two weeks to live, i was that bad. Today, i do anything i want to , altho i get tired walking so bought me a medical scooter hehe. But most days have no paini thanks to motrin and morphine, and feel normal enough to want to go fishing and camping and horse back riding again..and if someone had told me last year i would of ever felt like doing that again, i would of told them they were crazy! IF you have/had this cancer, do write me, as ido not know anyone else who has it ! thanks

stool test came back positive for blood twice, but during this time she had inflammed hemorrhoids. After the suppository treatment, she no longer has any pain or straining during bowel movement and all visible signs of red blood on the stool and toilet paper have disappeared. So how likely is this to be something more serious like colorectal cancer? She is now due to repeat the stool test again

i was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in september 07. I have since gone through chemo and radiation treatment and had surgery on the 28th of february 08. I developed problems after the surgery and have not been able to work but three weeks since september 07. I am a military retiree and most of the hospital bills have been taken care of but money for everyday living expenses such as rent,utilities.groceries has also ran out. Due to being a military retiree I am not eligible for any government programs and i was just wondering if someone had any information on any other programs that i could check into. I am not asking for a handout as i fully intend on paying any money i might receive for assistance back in full. thank you for any assistance in this matter

I’ve turned 50 y.o. this year, conscientiously had a physical exam (all OK) and routine referral for colonoscopy screening. I have no symptoms of illness, am pretty healthy; but what I expected to be a routine colonoscopy actually found many polyps and prompted Dr. to make a referral for labs. Dr’s report said "The large number and variety of polyps is unusual." and that "genetic testing is indicated." Dr. had me back twice more, each time looked around in my colon and removed many polyps. The three colonoscopy procedures during past four months have found about 50 polyps, mostly pre-cancerous "adenomas" – tubular and tubulovillous per pathology reports; but no dysplasia nor carcinoma at present). Most polyps found have been fairly small, a couple 1.0-1.5 cm. Still some small
sessile polyps remain at present. After 3rd colonoscopy Dr. counseled that consideration should be given to genetic testing, "and ultimately colectomy may be needed." Dr. referred me for "FAPKM" genetic testing, they drew my blood and have sent it off to Mayo Clinic. This "FAPKM" testing seems pretty specialized – they are looking for a specific genetic mutation that might inhibit my colon from suppressing polyps. I have no known family history of colon polyps, no family history of colorectal cancer. Everything I’ve read seems
to indicate that a colon with 50 pre-cancerous polyps is serious,
whether the cause is genetic or "sporadic," and leaves me with the impression the colectomy option may (eventually?) be more likely needed than not.
While I await test results I wonder, can anyone here explain likely range of outcomes for someone with my current condition?

Hi.

Someone I know is going through cancer treatment (colorectal). His CEA score started at 12, went down to 6.5, and is now up to 25. Other than it going in the wrong direction, what do scores really mean? What is the possible range on the CEA tumor marker scale? Does it go up to 100, 1000, forever? Is there any correlation between # and prognosis or is it just that if it goes up, it’s not good?

Thanks!
The tumor has not been removed, he’s unable to have additional CT scans due to an allergic reaction to the chemicals used for that process, and he is presently doing chemo only (no radiation therapy yet).

I’ve been having some bothersome symptoms lately. I’m 29 years old. I was just reading about the death of Joel Siegel. He died of colorectal cancer. So as I was reading about it, I found out the symptoms of colorectal cancer & I have actually been having several of these symptoms for some time now. Since the birth of my daughter early this year. Would it be really unlikely that I would have colorectal cancer? Like I said I’m 29 years old. These are the symptoms I’m having:
- chronic constipation
- a little bit of rectal bleeding (this doesn’t happen every day tho)
- pain during and after having a bm
- unexplainable fatigue & feeling of weakness despite me getting a full 8 hours of sleep & sometimes I even get more
Those are the recurring symptoms I’ve been having. Do you think it could be colorectal cancer? I’m hoping it’s just hemorrhoids as I also read from an article on webmd that hemorrhoids can also cause bleeding in the digestive tract & since I had baby not long ago…
by the way here’s the link to the article about colorectal cancer. It contains a list of many of the symptoms caused by having colorectal cancer that I got off of webmd.

http://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/symptoms-colorectal-cancer

WRite this in your own words please!!

"We always want to see the grand-slam home run," said Dr. Martin Abeloff, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. "But what we are seeing are incremental gains."

Abeloff added: "We are clearly on the right path. . . . We are seeing that cancer is really beginning to convert to a chronic disease."

Among men, deaths from lung cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer dropped the most. In women, the greatest decline was recorded in breast and colorectal cancers.

Experts attributed the progress to a variety of forces, including improved screening, a decline in smoking and the development of better drugs and therapies

The absolute drop in the number of cancer deaths continues a trend that started in the 1990s, when cancer death rates started to level off and then decline, said Elizabeth Ward, director of surveillance for the American Cancer Society
Please help please help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the task of this paper is to propose a brief research project that aims to investigate the acceptibility of a population-based screening test of colorectal cancer (we actually don’t have to do the research but they want to see how well we can write research proposals)

could a possible research question be whether people approve of the new intervention and how they respond to it? (is that brief enough?)

with defining concepts, does that mean defining what it means to ‘approve’? ie if people approve of a screening test they are more likley to use it. thus we can measure the prevalance of people who have used it in the past? and what colorectal cancer screening we choose to look at since there are more than one option?

i have two possible hypotheses.

1) people who are more informed by the health care providers are more likely to use and adhere to the new intervention more than will people who are less informed. (quantative)

how do you write a hypothesis for a qualatative research?

is people who have postive attitudes towards the new intervention are more likley to use it than will people who have negative attitudes towards it?

thanks!!!
hmm yeah i’m a bit stuck on the term ‘approve’ too. would it be better to use the word ‘accept’? any suggestions?!

There is a quiet revolution going on that early detection is the best treatment. What I still have to dream with is that a few words are more frightening to hear than "You have cancer."

Can you share with me a few words about the following types of cancer: Breast, Lung, Colorectal and Skin? I’ll appreciate. It’s for a project.

I am researching Colorectal Cancer for a school assignment, and I wanted to know all of the body systems that were affected by it. I’ve looked at several sites and have gotten very little info on the body systems, though I’ve found other info that I was looking for. If you are a medical professional and know about body systems, I’d appreciate your help:)