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How Is A Colon Cancer Diagnosed?

I was diagnosis with ulcerated mass Signode colon, The doctor came in the room and said you have cancer and it s pretty good size and maybe being there for a while and he left the room they sent in a biopsy, I have not got the results back but without the results how does he know it was cancer ?
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So the morphological appearance of growth looks like cancer and biopsy is needed just to confirm it.

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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

I would advise you to see the biopsy test result yourself and if you have colon cancer then for blood for CEA would also be high.
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How Is A Colon Cancer Diagnosed?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. So the morphological appearance of growth looks like cancer and biopsy is needed just to confirm it. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.