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What is colorectal cancer?

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Cancer of the large bowel, colon cancer, rectum cancer. The rectum is the part of the large bowel just above the anus.

Reviewed by Dr C R Jacobs, Clinical Oncologist, August 2008.

Reviewed by Dr Estelle Wilken, Senior Specialist, Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, University of Stellenbosch and Tygerberg Hospital, August 2010

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