G U T C A N C E R| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1. How do you get gut cancer?Gut cancer can manifest it self in the large bowel and in the rectum. Doctors speak of respectively colon carcinoma and rectum carcinoma.
This type of cancer is a cancer in which cells from the large and/or rectum don't function as they should function. The cancer cells divide themselves. If you don't do anything against it, the cancer cells will grow into a lump or tumor. This tumor will make it difficult for the large bowel to work. Moreover the cancer cells might spread themselves to other organs, where another lump or tumor can exist.
The large bowel (colon) and the rectum play a big part during the digestion of the food, and the combustion from the waste materials. The large bowel is about 150 cm. long. The rectum is about 20 to 25 cm. long and ends at the anus.
The large bowel consists of 4 parts: (look at picture A) 1. The colon ascendes is the part which flows from the small intestine into the right side of your stomach. Most of the time gut cancer cells come from polyps. Polyps are lumps which grow in the mucous membrane of the large bowel. These lumps are most of the time benign, which means that they can't hurt you and make you sick. These lumps exist in your large bowel and rectum when you get older. But not all the polyps are benign, so that lumps can make you ill, and can produce cancer cells. So a way to remove the gut cancer is to remove the polyps, so that they can't make you ill any more. |
