Bowel cancer is also known as colorectal cancer. It’s very common and develops slowly. Cancer treatments are available now.

Symptoms of this are changes in bowel habits, consistent diarrhea, blood or mucus in the stool, tiredness, weight loss, pain or lump in the abdomen.

It can be caused due to high alcohol intake; high animal fat and protein diet with low fibre, hereditary of bowel cancer also plays an important role.

If you think that you are suffering from any one of the above-mentioned symptoms you should visit your doctor and get an early diagnosis and treatments for controlling this.

Three tests to detect bowel cancer:

Barium enema: Mixture of barium and air is passed through the back passage into the bowel and abnormalities can be seen through x-ray.

Proctoscopy/Sigmoidoscopy: Air is pumped into the bowel; a tube with a camera is passed to search for any abnormal areas. Test is very painful.

Colonoscopy: A colonscope is passed into the bowel to scan the entire area of the bowel for any abnormalities.
If detected early it can be cured completely with the help of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy is suggested before and after surgery, advanced stage of cancer is not fully curable.