Large intestinal cancer is called bowel or colon cancer.Large intestine is much more prone to cancer than Small intestine. Colon cancer is more likely to be men and women in the Western world. This is why it is essentially called men's colon cancer. Because the men are more prone to this disease. More than 50 thousand people have more chances of this disease.
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When a large section of cell division breaks and the cells grow abnormally, then it is called colon cancer. Most colon cancer is the result of proliferation of adenomatous polyp. The polyp is initially made of a large or aplastic bacterium. Slowly, cancer develops from polyps and later spreads inside the body to attack healthy tissues.
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