People across the word are faced with a lot of uncertainty about how to increase the survival rate of colon cancer, by researching and learning to curb the doubt on this deadly disease. The future is not certain but that is hardly the point. All we need to do is to find something that hold on to and it provides us with broad ideas as to what the future holds. Therefore below are some of the steps.
The colon cancer survival rates numbers listed on this article are for the purpose of assisting your mind to settle. Your individual odds of survival are rather different from the generalized survival rate of colon cancer listed in this article.
The survival rate of colon cancer is impacted by the tumor’s location; this is according to a published article in the European journal of cancer. The rate of survival for sufferers of rising colon (nearest to the person’s small intestines) is around 63% in five years. Within the transverse colon the rate of survival stands at 59% while descending colon’s survival rate is around 66%. (This five year survival rate represents patient’s survival rate after their first cancer diagnosis)
The same study also represents variations of the survival rates of colon cancer in different countries. The colon’s cancer survival rate in Europe is 43% in an overall time period of five years while for the United States it is 62%. The colon cancer screening programs presence could be a contributing reason to the differences as well as quality of care could be contributing reasons to the differing rates. Generally, if Colon cancer is detected early it can be easy to treat.
The survival rate of colon cancer is also affected by the diagnosis stage. The five year survival rate of colon cancer is 93% when it is in the first stage while it decreases to 59% in the third stage of the disease; this is according to a published research that was found in the ANZ surgery journal in Australia. Read on the stages of colon cancer in Colon Cancer Stages which provides you with more information about the colon cancer stages generally.
An estimated 93% of Americans that are diagnosed with colon cancer at its first stage are still living even after five years duration according to the Society of Cancer in America. Below are the five year colon cancer survival rates in the advanced stages:
- • stage 2A: 85%
- • stage 2B: 72%
- • stage 3A: 83%
- • stage 3B: 64%
- • stage 3C:44%
- • stage 4:8%
Majority of the factors mentioned above cannot be controlled. You did not pick what kind of cancer to get neither did you choose where to get it, you inhabit where you inhabit. Now that you have it what will you do to increase the chances of survival? The colon cancer survival rates can be increased by sensible exercises that the patient carry out, this has been revealed by results of 2 studies that were conducted in Boston by researchers at the Dana- Ferber Cancer Institute. An article published in the Gut journal has explained the role exercise can play to increase the survival rate of colon cancer.