anybody know anything about cholitis and colon cancer?

Answer 1

Ask a specific question in relation to colon cancer and colitis. My father has Chron's disease and for the longest time they told him that he had colitis. I might be able to help answer something for you if I knew what it was I was supposed to be answering.

Answer 2

Colon cancer is cancer that starts in the large instestine (colon) or the rectum (end of the colon). Such cancer is sometimes referred to as "colorectal cancer." When cancer starts in the lining of an organ such as the large intestine, it is called a carcinoma.

Other types of colon cancer such as lymphoma, carcinoid tumors, melanoma, and sarcomas are rare. In this article, use of the term "colon cancer" refers to colon carcinoma and not the other, more rare types of colon cancer.
If the patient's colon cancer does not come back (recur) within 5 years, it is considered cured. This is because colon cancer rarely comes back after 5 years. Stage I, II, and III cancers are considered potentially curable. In most cases, stage IV cancer is not curable.

Stage I has a 90% 5-year survival. Stage II has a 75 - 85% 5-year survival, and Stage III a 40 - 60% 5-year survival. These numbers take into account that for stage III patients (and in some studies, stage II patients), chemotherapy improves the chance of 5-year survival.

Patients with stage IV disease rarely live beyond 5 years, and the median survival (meaning half the patients live longer, and half shorter) with treatment is between 1 and 2 years.
Signs and symptoms of colitis include pain, tenderness in the abdomen, fever, swelling of the colon tissue, bleeding, erythema (redness) of the surface of the colon, rectal bleeding, and ulcerations of the colon. Tests that show these signs are plain X-rays of the colon, testing the stool for blood and pus, sigmoidoscopy, and colonoscopy. Additional tests include stool cultures and blood tests,and There are several types of colitis, including ulcerative colitis, Crohn's Disease, diversion colitis, ischemic colitis, infectious colitis, and atypical colitis.

A well known subtype of infectious colitis is pseudomembranous colitis, resulting from infection by a toxigenic strain of Clostridium difficile. Parasitic infections can also cause colitis.

Any colitis which has a rapid downhill clinical course is known as fulminant colitis. In addition to the diarrhea, fever, and anemia seen in colitis, the patient has severe abdominal pain and a clinical picture similar to septicemia with shock is present. Approximately half of those patients require surgery.

Irritable bowel syndrome is a separate disease which has been called spastic colitis or spastic colon. This name causes confusion since colitis is not a feature of irritable bowel syndrome.

Autistic enterocolitis is a disputed medical entity but refers to a type of colitis found in patients with autism.

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Treatment
Treatment of colitis may include the administration of antibiotics and general anti-inflammatory medications such as Mesalamine or its derivatives; steroids, or one of a number of other drugs that ameliorate inflammation. Surgery is sometimes needed, especially in cases of fulminant colitis.

Some have found a change in diet to be effective at treating the symptoms of colitis, especially reducing the intake of carbohydrates. This approach has been championed by Elaine Gottschall.

Answer 3

Both my mother and grandmother were diagnosed with colon cancer. If you have any questions or anything, just ask and I'll do my best to help you out.

Answer 4

You have got to move to the surgeon!!! What is your age?? When it involves this, you don't ought to positioned it off. I do not wish to fear you, best make you mindful... my grandmother kicked the bucket from colon melanoma. it used to be over twenty years in the past earlier than they knew a lot approximately it. matters have modified now, tons of recent science that may discover matters higher. it is feasible to be hemmroids.....and it is feasible it might be tons worse...both method, it have got to be visible approximately asap!! quit stalling.... move see a surgeon! does any of those run for your household?? my mother had a colonoscopy and so they determined five polyps......nevertheless it used to be k.....while i became forty, i had this scan, too........i had one, which used to be satisfactory. however we must maintain each and every five years getting confirmed. Good good fortune!

Answer 5

No, sorry I wish I did.