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A UCLA Health answered. Colon cancer can cause a person to feel tired or weak, lose weight, and have general discomfort in their digestive system and bowel movements. In the later stages of colon cancer, the cancer can spread beyond the rectum into other parts of the body. In stage III colon cancer, the lymph nodes that reside nearby are infected. In the final stage of colon cancer, stage IV, the cancer has spread to other organs, such as the liver or lungs.
Lung metastases. Bowel cancer can spread through the body in a number of different ways. When cancer cells break away from the primary tumour in the bowel, they can travel around in the blood stream or in lymph fluid. We know that there is a common pattern in the way that bowel cancer spreads in the body.