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Cancer Of The Bowel

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Bowel cancer effects 2,000 people alone in victoria evry year, mostly the ealderly, it also claims even more deaths each year.

This disease starts in the lining of the colon or the rectum, if this problem is not looked into straight away it can spread deeper into the bowel and from there it can spread to the liver and or lungs which means start planning your funneral.

There are different types of treatment procedures but the main one is operation were the surgeon cuts a section of the bladder which is infested by the cancer off and then joins wat ever is apart, a bowel heal is sometimes left over from the surgery.But sometimes the cancer cannot be cured so they use other persedures  suck as radiotheropy, chemotherepy or painkilling drugs.

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