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What Is Colon Cancer?

What Is Colon Cancer? (0:38)

Colon cancer typically starts off as a small polyp in the colon. In this video, Daniel Labow, MD, an oncology surgeon at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, explains how over time the polyp can grow into a malignant tumor.

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In general, colon cancer starts as polyp or a growth in the colon, and then if left alone over time, usually the time frame and average risk of a patient is about five to ten years, it will transform into malignancy and then grow into actual an cancer..

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