Any food we eat will pass through our oesophagus and into the complex set of tissues and tubes known as the digestive system. It is within this digestive system that the colon exists and a patient that contracts colon cancer is likely to be someone that has a health history or a risk factor that is associated with the disease. If you regularly suffer from polyps (tiny protruding pieces of tissue) in the colon, or have a family history of colon or rectal cancers then are stand a higher r