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What are my chances of getting colon cancer? how common is it?
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Possibility: The number of new cases of colon and rectum cancer is 43.7 per 100,000 men and women per year. The number of deaths was 15.9 per 100,000 men and women per year. The lesions begin in the bowel as premalignant cells in a field effect and at times can be detected early in the form of a polyp by colonoscopy. The probable cause is a polyoma virus involving the bowel.
Answered 11/9/2014
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