Put a moisturizer on your skin three or four times during the day. Always put the moisturizer on right after you wash or bathe. If you have very dry hands, put petroleum jelly on them before you go to bed at night and sleep with your hands in cotton-lined gloves. Changing your bathing habits also can help.
Also, younger-onset colon cancer appears to affect African-Americans more often than other groups. The most common symptoms of colon cancer are rectal bleeding and lower abdominal cramping. Other telltale symptoms may include a change in stool consistency, constipation, diarrhea or weight loss. Blood tests that reveal new-onset anemia can often signal the presence of a colon tumor. Unfortunately, colon cancer often is not considered as a cause of such symptoms in people who are younger than 50. As a consequence, colon cancer diagnosis can be delayed. Statistics show that colon cancer tends to be diagnosed at later stages in young people.
Cancer that starts in your colon can sometimes spread to other parts of your body, including the liver. Another name for this cancer is metastatic, or stage IV, colon cancer. Your doctor might find that the cancer has spread to your liver when he first diagnoses you with colon cancer.Or after you've been treated, the colon cancer can come back and spread to the liver. About half of people with colorectal cancer will develop cancer that has spread.ome people with colon cancer that has spread to the liver don't have any symptoms. Or you might have symptoms like: 1  Blood in the stool. 2  Pain in the right side of your belly. 3  Swelling in your belly. 4  Tired, sick feeling. 5  Weight loss.