What is bowel cancer explainer | October 25, 2023 | The Courier - video Dailymotion

What is bowel cancer explainer. Video source: Bowel Cancer Australia.

Transcript

00:00 Bowel cancer is a change in the cellular behaviour of the lining of the wall of the large intestine.

00:13 We lose every single one of the cells lining our entire intestine, small and large bowel,

00:21 many metres, every 10 days, not all at once.

00:25 So your bowel motion consists of waste product, bacteria and dead cells.

00:32 For every cell you lose, you get a new one, one for one, all good.

00:38 One cell says, "I ain't going."

00:41 It stays there and it divides and it becomes two and they become four and they become 8,

00:48 16, 32.

00:50 So you have an exponential rate of growth of abnormal cells which at that stage, mushroom-shaped,

00:57 is called a polyp.

00:59 Polyps are benign.

01:00 40% of men, 30% of women, most don't turn to cancer but the cancers all come from the

01:08 polyps.

01:09 If they keep growing, they grow slowly but probably a minimum of 5 years mostly, can

01:18 get them quickly but mostly 5 years before they might turn to a cancer.

01:23 So we have time on our side to find them.

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