To answer your question, it's called this way because it grows without causing noticeable symptoms in the early stages. Many people feel completely normal while the cancer slowly develops over time. There’s usually no pain, no visible signs, and nothing that immediately triggers concern. When symptoms like rectal bleeding, persistent changes in bowel habits, fatigue from anemia, or unexplained weight loss finally do appear, the disease is often already in a more advanced stage. That delay in symptoms is what makes it so dangerous, and why regular screening, such as colonoscopies, becomes paramount.

valuable information Dr Dinah with many thanks.

This disease start in a slow manner of gradual increasing constipation, scanty bleeding on defecation. Later alternate constipation and diarrhoea this by the time the patient to the doctor, becomes late. Still the patient takes various medication. By the time the patient present to the treating doctor became late. At times becomes not operable with presence is metastasis and ascites. Hence the term.

In the early stage, population screening should permit an early diagnosis of cancer; it is essential to consider colonoscopy as the best standard to rule out the suspicion of the disease.

Family History is important to decide the best approach to.

Recently, precocious age can retard the diagnosis

when he starts talking we have acute abdomen or complications

Hello Juma Almutaani

Yes. CRC usually begins as a benign polyp, a small growth of abnormal cells on the intestinal wall. The large intestine can accommodate changes without noticeable symptoms, as the initial growths are often confined to the lining and don't interfere with bowel function or surrounding structures.

When symptoms do appear, they can be general, such as a change in bowel habits, abdominal discomfort, or unexplained weight loss, and can be easily mistaken for other, less serious conditions. Because of this tendency for silent growth, regular screenings like colonoscopies are essential to detect polyps before they become cancerous or to find cancer at an early, treatable stage.

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