Colorectal cancer does not occur overnight. First, polyps appear in the lower six inches of the colon ( the rectum ). These polyps are precancerous growths that appear as bumps or abscesses. Sometimes they’re benign, but other times they mutate into cancer, which begins working its way thru the rectal wall, into surrounding lymph nodes and into other organ tissue, wreaking all sorts of havoc. While living a healthy lifestyle helps prevent cancer in general, the sole way to effectively combat colon cancer is to get screened constantly after fifty years of age.
The actual cause of cancer of the rectum has not been pinpointed, [click to continue…]
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