what is the risk of dying from colon cancer?


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Colon cancer is the third most common type of cancer in the US, and the second leading cause of cancer death. Colon cancer claims the lives of 50,000 men and women a year.

There is a graph showing survival rates for the different stages of colon cancer (for example, cancer has not penetrated the bowel-cancer found early to cancer has spread to other organs-advanced colon cancer) here: http://www.mc.uky.edu/RuralHealth/LayHealth/colocancer.pdf#search='colon%20cancer%20rates'

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very high!! nothing not take chances with

The risk of dying with colon cancer is the whole dieing part.

do yuo mean the chances of dying from colon cancer? if so it depends on how far its gone. colon cancer is highly treatable. its usually cured before it gets to terminal.
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bowel cancer survivor



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