Can patients with colon cancer get pregnant?

Colon cancer is a common malignant tumor of the digestive tract that occurs in the colon. Most patients are middle-aged or older, but young people can also develop the disease, with a male-to-female ratio of about 2:1. Its early symptoms are mainly changes in bowel habits, such as constipation, diarrhea, or alternating diarrhea. There is often a small amount of blood and mucus attached to the surface of the stool. As the disease progresses, the amount of blood in the stool gradually increases, and there is a feeling of tenesmus. Symptoms such as weight loss and anemia progressively worsen. In the late stage, jaundice, ascites, hepatomegaly, abdominal mass, intestinal obstruction, cachexia, and persistent pain in the sacrum and coccyx may occur.

If a colon cancer patient is currently undergoing treatment, it is best not to get pregnant. The medication and chemotherapy during treatment will affect the health of the fetus. Pregnancy can only be considered under the guidance of a doctor if there is no recurrence at least one year after the treatment is stopped.

According to a world epidemiological survey, the incidence of colon cancer is highest in North America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and other places, ranking first among visceral tumors, but the incidence is very low in Asia, Africa, Latin America and other places.