It says online that you live at least 5 years after treating colon cancer does that mean 6 years or a full life time or a much reduced lifetime? Generally speaking?

Hello Kindregards friends and thank you for getting back to us again,

This is what we say on our website about the 5 year survival;

'The terms 1 year survival and 5 year survival don't mean that you will only live for 1 or 5 years.

The NHS, other health organisations, and researchers collect information. They record what happens to people with cancer in the years after their diagnosis. 5 years is a common time point to measure survival. But some people live much longer than this.

5 year survival is the number of people who have not died from their cancer within 5 years after diagnosis.'

You can read more about survival of bowel cancer on our website.

Best wishes,

Catherine

so is blood very common and how likely does blood = cancer? I can see the chances of getting bowel cancer are very low esp for me at 41, but what are the chances once blood is detected? blood is all the time isnt it ? do they need to worry everyone to keep the rates low basically?

i mean bloods like silly common , its not all the time

are the screening tests any different to the normal FOB tests they both just look for blood is that correct?

thanks very very much btw friend

I’m not a doctor, just a patient but the FIT tests only report the presence of blood in your poo.

If you are constipated, the pressure causes damage to your bowel, rectum and/or anus. Get rid of the pressure, the damage heals and the bleeding stops. 

If you have cancer, the bleeding is constant (though the pressure may make it worse) and won’t it heal just because you are no longer constipated.

I hope this helps.
Dave

I’m not a doctor, just a patient but the FIT tests only report the presence of blood in your poo.

If you are constipated, the pressure causes damage to your bowel, rectum and/or anus. Get rid of the pressure, the damage heals and the bleeding stops. 

If you have cancer, the bleeding is constant (though the pressure may make it worse) and won’t it heal just because you are no longer constipated.

I hope this helps.
Dave