The symptoms of colon cancer in women have been major concern for many medical practicians for many reasons too. The cancer grows in the colon, appendix, and the rectum, and shaped like mushroom. It becomes really dangerous as it reaches the advantaged stage and detected using colonscopy procedure. This cancer can be cured with surgery in the first two stage. Meanwhile, it will be only 73% of this cancer that can be cured as it reaches the third stage. And at the more advanced fourth stage, the patient should take both chemotherapy and surgery to cure this disease.

The Symptoms

There are three types of the symptoms of colon cancer in women; local, constitutional, and metastasis. Other thing you should know is that the symptoms in women depend on the tumor’s position. And they can be happen in minor diseases too.

Colon Cancer in Women - We can see the local symptoms of colon cancer in women if the cancer is near the anus. This make changes in the bowel movements: diarrhea or constipation. This causes also the diameter change in your stool as there are more mucus. Stool-bleeding, air or blood in your urine, discharge of vagina, and bowel perforating that is uncontrolled are also included as the symptoms.

Loss of blood caused by chronic bleeding is one of the examples of the constitutional symptoms of colon cancer in women. This one consequently cause fatigue, pale skin, and palpitataions. All if these may also cause weight loss, appetite loss, and unreasonable fever.

The example of metastatic symptoms of colon cancer in women is when the cancer has spread into the liver. And this one is so hard to detect. If this happens, there will be jaundice, and biliary obstructions.