Procedure that should be adopted: once you learn that you are suffering from anal cancer you should not take this lightly but get immediate help. There are cancer hospitals that provide treatments for all sorts of cancers. Cancer is no ordinary disease that you can ignore. You have to find a proper channel through which you get your treatment done. The very first thing that you need to do is visit a doctor for a medical examintaion.

·                     Physical exam and history: An exam of the body to check general signs of health, including checking for signs of disease, such as lumps or anything else that seems unusual. A history of the patient’s health habits and past illnesses and treatments will also be taken.

 ·                     Digital rectal examination (DRE): An exam of the anus and rectum. The doctor or nurse inserts a lubricated, gloved finger into the lower part of the rectum to feel for lumps or anything else that seems unusual.

·                     Anoscopy: An exam of the anus and lower rectum using a short, lighted tube called an anoscope.

·                     Proctoscopy: An exam of the rectum using a short, lighted tube called a proctoscope.

·                     Endo-anal or endorectal ultrasound: A procedure in which an ultrasound transducer (probe) is inserted into the anus or rectum and used to bounce high-energy sound waves (ultrasound) off internal tissues or organs and make echoes. The echoes form a picture of body tissues called a sonogram.

Biopsy: The removal of cells or tissues so they can be viewed under a microscope by a pathologist to check for signs of cancer. If an abnormal area is seen during the anoscopy, a biopsy may be done at that time.           

          These are a few medical examinations that you need to take. These different tests vary from normal health examinations because cancer cells are not easily detected.If they do not appear in one test then other tests have been created so that if there is cancer it is detected one way or the other. It is advised that people dont make any delay in getting themselves examined if they spot any smptoms of cancer. 

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