Bowel Cancer

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What is bowel cancer?
Cancer within the bowel which usually starts within the colon or rectum.
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What are the signs of bowel cancer?
Blood in stool, change in bowel habits lasting more than 6 weeks, losing weight without trying, low red blood count, anemia, extreme fatigue, abdominal pain, lump detected by doctor
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What are the risk factors?
Smoking, family history, not enough fibre in diet, being over 60, having Crohn's disease, previous cancers, being diabetic, being overweight/obese, consuming more than 2 units of alcohol a day
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How do you treat bowel cancer?
Surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, biological treatments, exercise, vitamin D
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What does the treatment depend on?
Health of client, type of cancer, stage of cancer and size of cancer
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What are the signs of bowel cancer?

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Blood in stool, change in bowel habits lasting more than 6 weeks, losing weight without trying, low red blood count, anemia, extreme fatigue, abdominal pain, lump detected by doctor

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Morgoroth

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Interesting reading, short and precise, thanks!

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