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Colon Cancer by Stella Zhang

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My Cure for Colon Cancer 

 

by Stella Zhang

 

 

a.) Where would you look specifically to find a cure for colon cancer?

 

Colon cancer is also called colorectal cancer. The early signs of colorectal cancer are not obvious, so most of the findings are in the middle and late stages, which causes extremely high death rate. Colon cancer has certain transmissibility. People who have the history of large intestine cancer and pelvic cavity radiotherapy history, will make their immediate family member all belong to the high-risk population of cancer. In addition, colon cancer is often closely related to living habits. Hence, in order to find a cure for colon cancer, I can do some researches on some participants who have colon cancer. I will make a questionnaire for them including questions about their living habits and if or not their relative families have history of large intestine cancer and pelvic cavity radiotherapy. The research will be difficult because it needs enough large populations of participants. Also, participants who have colon cancer might not have enough energy and proper moods to help with the research. It will need to spend lots of time finding proper participants and collecting responses from them.

 

 

b.) How would you go about finding a cure (Layout your detailed plan)?

 

Before I begin finding a cure for colon cancer, I need to know more about what colon cancer is and what causes colon cancer. Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors. The malignant tumors caused by the mucosal epithelium are collectively referred to as colorectal cancer, which is the most common malignant tumor in the gastrointestinal tract. The origin of mesenchymal organizers is known as sarcomas, which account for about 1 percent of malignant lesions in the large intestine. The 5-year survival rate after surgical resection can reach 40% ~ 60% on average. Early detection, early diagnosis, early treatment and standardized surgical treatment are still the keys to improve the efficacy of colorectal cancer. Like what I discussed above, living habits will be main causes to colon cancer, such as low-fiber and high-fat diet, diabetes, obesity, smoking, alcohol, and sedentary lifestyle. Also, older age and African-American race are factors to cause colon cancer. And then, we need to know the symptoms of colon cancer. 

 

1) Diarrhea or constipation or a change in the consistency of stool

2) Rectal bleeding or blood in stool.

3) Persistent abdominal discomfort.

4) Bowel cannot be empty completely.

5) People feel weak and fatigue.

6) People lose weights without reasons.

 

In addition to ways of prevention, we still need to use clinical examination:

 

Stool based tests:

  1. Fecal immunochemical test (FIT) yearly
  2. Guaiac fecal occult blood test yearly
  3. Stool DNA test every 3 years
  4.  

Structural examinations:

  1. Colonoscopy every 10 years
  2. Flexible sigmoidoscopy every 5 years
  3. CT colonography every 5 years.

 

Treatments:

 

Surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and immunotherapy. In different stage of the cancer, these treatments may be combined.

 

c.) Integrate two scientific references that you researched that support your plan. Include a statement for each in your writing.

 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/colon-cancer/symptoms-causes/syc-20353669

 

This reference lists some bad living habits that will cause colon cancer, so that it is possible to do the research by collecting participants' living habits.

 

https://stopcoloncancernow.com/colon-cancer-prevention/risk-factors/family-history

 

This reference explains one of the risk factors that causes colon cancer is the history of family of the disease, so that I can add the part of asking for participants' family history of disease in the questionnaire. 

 

 

 References URL's:

 

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/colon-cancer/symptoms-causes/syc-20353669

https://stopcoloncancernow.com/colon-cancer-prevention/risk-factors/family-history

https://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/guide/understanding-colorectal-cancer-detection-and-treatment#1

https://www.medicinenet.com/early_warning_signs_and_stages_of_colon_cancer/article.htm

https://treatment-colon-cancer.blogspot.com/2013_02_01_archive.html

https://www.medicinenet.com/colon_cancer/article.htm

 

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