what does it mean when you are dianozed with colon cancer stage 3 dukes c?
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Stage III comes from the TNM classification system--and gives information on Tumor size and location, Node involvement, and Metastasis. Dukes C is from another, older classification system and gives generally the same info. These two systems generally correlate. This information is too detailed to go into on this forum, and is best explained by your Colorectal Surgeon anyway.\n\nI'm not quite sure where the above answerer seems to get her info, so why don't you let your surgeon tell you what your options are? You can ask all the questions you want, and together decide the best course of action.\n\nI will say it's serious, and right now if you have been diagnosed with this disease you don't need a "guess" from a non-physician about your treatment and prognosis. You need good information, from an expert. Yahoo Answers won't give you that. The only thing you'll get from answers like the above is anxiety.\n\nNow to cyanne2ak: I'm not sure where you get your info, but alot of it is either inaccurate or incomplete. An answer like what you gave above could be enough to scare this person away from treatment. I hope it doesn't. Delay in treatment, might make a life or death difference. Cancer is scary, and many people don't like to hear half-answers put so bluntly, without all of the facts. Stop googling medical topics and splashing half answers to people who have serious medical problems. Please.
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The last stage of lung cancer is stage III. It is when the cancer has spread to other organs and lymph tissue and cannot be removed without surgery. It also means that it might be anywhere in the body and not just in the places it is discovered - so you can have surgery and then find that it is other places as well. \n\nI am very sorry if you are researching because someone you know has cancer or you think you might. \n\nQuitting smoking is hard - it is worth it.
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Hi! Means you're not getting enough fiber and you're constipated. You need to drink more water and increase the amount of fiber in your diet. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you increase the fiber LITTLE AT A TIME...otherwise you'll get bloated and may have the opposite effect of constipation...catch my drift?Good luck. It's important to use the toilet at least everyday (unless you don't eat!) because toxins will remain in your system and over a long period of time, the build up of toxins wear on the system, causing cells to divide abnormally and then you are at risk for colon cancer. Eat your fruit and veggies please.
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Cancer is staged on the progession of your disease/cancer. What type of cancer are you dealing with? Has is spread to other organs?
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I am not a doctor (just been around them alot lately) so I'm not entirely sure. But, my son had stage IV intra-abdominal sarcoma so I'm familiar with some of the words here.\n\nI would suspect that this refers to metastatic spred (tumor implants or seeding) into the abdominal cavity. (the omentum appears hardened indicating 'seeding' of tiny nodules or tumors).\n\nYou should ask your oncologist though.\n\nStay strong.
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Yes, particularly if the disease isn't caught in it's early stages\n\nOverall 5-year survival rates for the US (all stages of the cancer combined):-\n\nRectum: 59%\n\nRight colon: 59%\n\nTransverse colon: 59%\n\nRectosigmoid junction: 62%\n\nAscending colon: 63%\n\nLeft colon: 65%\n\nDescending colon: 66%
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I would say none, but I've never heard of column cancer.\n\nColon cancer would probably be none as well. Fiber would keep the colon clean.\n\nHowever, if you were genecially predisposed to the cancer, it wouldn't really matter what you ate.
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sounds like some sort of cancer. or tumor.
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I don't know what exactly you are asking, but I am assuming you are asking about treatments and diagnostic practices.  The treatments are the same, colon resection, chemo, radiation, and the like, but the diagnostic practices are evolving drastically.  In addition to the wonderful colonoscopy, there are new genetic tests available.  You can have blood tests and genetic counseling done to see if you have the gene that is a marker for colon cancer.  If you have the gene (or don't for that matter), it doesn't mean that you have or don't have cancer, just that you are much more likely to get it.
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it depends on what kind of chemotherapy you had.\nUnfortunatelly sometimes its permanent like in using (vincristin).\nhowever the cause of the humbness may not be the chemotherapy itself, may be other condition like diabetes or the cancer itself or may be some vitamin defficiency caused by the chemotherapy.\nyou better check with the oncologist & YOU MAY NEED MORE THAN 1 OPENION.\nI wish you good health.
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I work in cancer research, so I know a bit about the statistics.\n\nIt will depend on the stage at diagnosis.  If it's stage I or II, it's possible.  Stage III is unlikely, and stage IV has a very poor prognosis - usually those who are diagnosed at stage IV only have a few months to live.\n\nI hope that this person has had an early diagnosis - cancer is a horrible thing - I wish your friend the best.
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I have Crohn's also. You can die from complications of the disease, but it's much less likely these days than it was in the past. As long as the problem is corrected ASAP, your mom will be fine. \n\nThis site lists the main complications and what can be done to correct them:\n\nhttp://health.yahoo.com/topic/digestive/complication/article/ehealthmd/Digestive_YMS_CD_complications;_ylt=Avxv9E66iAjCUgEGAlGB3CyRtcUF\n\nYou and your mom are in my thoughts. I hope she is doing well.\n\nRyan K is WRONG, by the way. Colon cancer is NOT a complication of Crohn's; it is a separate disease altogether and someone's chances of getting colon cancer when they have Crohn's are no higher than if they don't have Crohn's.
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Well prostate cancer hits 8 out of 10 men in a life time. Prostate cancer is usually a slow growing cancer unless the Gleason score is high. This score measures how fast the prostate cancer will grow. You did not state if your dad colon cancer is in remission or still active. I do not understand why they will not do surgery on your dad unless he is older than 65 and the Gleason score is low. Radiation therapy daily for 6-8 weeks usually kills or really slows down the cancer but then again it all depends on how advanced the colon cancer is. Radiation sometimes affects the colon area. Cryotherapy can work and studies do show it will slow down the prostate cancer. Have your father ask for a second opinion. And if you can follow up with some more information about your dad. This way you can get more information on his cancer. Also you can go to prostate cancer in the Internet and look up all the different treatments for prostate cancer. Good luck to you. My dad had his prostate removed and is cancer free 2 years later and counting. So I know what you are going threw right now...
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c-diff is serious and I am not sure how a person has this for 7 months and is still living.  If this is the true diagnosis then the intestines would be pretty well inflamed, to say the least.  \n\nAre you a nursing student looking for help with a care plan?
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Oh, Kendra! I am so sorry to hear about your grandmother. I don't know a whole lot about colon cancer, but I will pray for her. :) Also the best thing you can do for her is just to keep praying for her yourself. Also feel free to e-mail me at VMF4Jesus@yahoo.com with updates on how she is doing. God bless you!
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no classification but it determines stage of cancer.
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If you read what you've written (especially the first sentence), you'll see that you've answered it yourself.  Cancer is CANCER...and it's "cancer of..." whatever organ happens to have cancer.\n\nI mean, if your brain has cancerous cells growing in  it, then you've got brain cancer, and if your bones have cancer growing in them, then you've got bone cancer. So, naturally, if the lower end of your gut has got cancer growing in it, then you have colon cancer...or colorectal cancer.\n\nWhy should you be concerned--about cancer ANYWHERE in your body?  Because cancer can kill you.  AAMOF, 1/4 of all deaths in the USA are caused by one form of cancer or another.\n\nSo the #1 reason to care is that you probably don't want to die any earlier than you have to.\nAnd  #2 is that you don't want to have to go through a lot of pain and dysfunction in that part of your anatomy before you die.\nAnd #3 is that, if you do turn out to have colorectal cancer, they'll remove that part of your body, and then your feces get emptied directly into a bag.  Most people are not exactly thrilled about that prospect.