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"   Question My mom has cancer in the small and large bowel \u2013 it has already spread to the liver and it is inoperable. Her father died of bowel cancer many years ago and her sister had bowel cancer 15 years ago but she didn\u2019t die of the condition.  What else can be done for my mum? With the family history of this condition what are my chances of developing the same condition?   Answer   Risk of developing colorectal cancer according to family history    Relative with CRC Approximate risk of developing CRC   1 FDR 1 in 17   1 FDR 1 SDR 1 in 12   1 FDR under 45 years 1 in 10   2 FDRs 1 in 6   3 FDRs 1 in 2    I am very sorry to hear of your mother&amp;#039;s illness.  From your description of the extent of her disease, she is going to require a good deal of supportive, palliative care to treat her symptoms and enable her to cope with the ordeal that she faces.  Fortunately, she is not alone. Her GP, practice and district nurses, hospital nurse specialists and counsellors and her consultant are there to support you and the rest of your family in this daunting task.  Under certain circumstances, there are chemotherapeutic agents that can be used in the management of inoperable colon cancer and your mother&amp;#039;s consultant surgeon may wish to refer her to an oncologist for their opinion.  Unfortunately, there is no way of calculating just how long any individual will survive, but is likely that you are looking at months rather than years.  Cancer of the large bowel or colon can be hereditary and whether or not you and your relatives require screening for the condition by colonoscopy can be determined to a large extent from your family history.  If you take an individual in the general population without any family history of colon cancer, their risk of developing the condition is 1 in 50.  The table below indicates how this risk then changes in accordance with your family history.  With a risk of less than 1 in 10 (eg 1 in 17) there is said to be no need for colonoscopy.  It is recommended that high risk (1 in 10 or greater, eg 1 in 6) patients should be referred to a consultant clinical geneticist for assessment.  Yours sincerely The NetDoctor Medical Team  Other Qs &amp;amp;amp; As After bowel cancer After bowel cancer surgery Bowel cancer screening I&amp;#039;m worried about blood in my stool Is bowel cancer hereditary? My father died from bowel cancer - am I at risk?  Last updated 02.11.2011 "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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