The color of the normal bowel movement is any shade of brown (usually medium brown), or brown/green. When stool appears apparently yellow/pale, and no relation to ingested food can be found, the following disorders should be considered:

1. DIARRHEA

In diarrhea, food travels through the intestine fast, so intestinal bacteria do not have time to convert bilirubin into stercobilin that gives stool its normal brown color. In other words, the stool in diarrhea from any cause may be yellow.

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Colon Cancer and Liver Disease

Colon Cancer is the hyperproliferation of abnormal cells or cancer cellular mass in the actual colon. As the word cancer implies, colon cancer is a malignant and metastasic condition the may evade other organs.

Our colon is a muscular, tube-shaped organ measuring approximately 4 feet long. It goes on from the end of your small intestine to your anus, perverting and whirling through the abdomen (belly).

Cancer is a malignant tumor that spreads and affects other organs. Once cancer reaches the blood vessels or lymph nodes, it evades the nearby organ then and if the abnormal proliferation of cells is left untreated. Cancers are a life-threatening condition because of their uninhibited growth. They overpower and devastate healthy cells, tissues, and by taking their space, oxygen, and nutrients. Most colon cancers are adenocarcinomas—tumors that grow from the glands lining inside the colon wall. Oftentimes, colon cancer is referred to colorectal cancer since the rectum is the end point of the colon

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