CIH: Menu for patients
Monday 26 February 2024
We need to pay attention to health care, especially for sick people; protecting and restoring health is very necessary. For patients, in addition to spending more time resting, nutrition also...
Thursday 25 January 2024
Announcement of Public Holidays - New Year 2024
Dear valued patients, City International Hospital would like to announce the hospital opening hours during Public Holidays – New Year 2024 (Giap Thin Tet) as below:
Monday 22 January 2024
Staying healthy brings more happiness than anything else during TET holidays?
The Ministry of Health’s Department of Preventive Medicine warned that the coming Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays and spring festive season, when trading and travel...
Tuesday 26 December 2023
2024 New Year's Holiday Announcement
In observance of New Year’s Day, we would like to thank you for your support and cooperation in the year 2024 and look forward to receiving your continuing assistance...
Wednesday 29 November 2023
The journey of two hospitals in Vietnam first to qualify for coveted AACI accreditation
Nearly 2 years attentively nurturing & more than 6 months intensively executing, to be proudly become the two hospitals firstly in Vietnam certified for American...

 Daily practices, especially bad eating habits such as consuming fast foods; high fat, low fiber foods, alcoholic beverages or smoking regularly are common factors leading to colon cancer development.

 Most of you are already aware of these unhealthy behaviors but continue to do so because you thought that you are far from acquiring cancer. Colon cancer is the 3rd most common type of cancer found in both male and female population. Majority of patients are aged older than 50 years old with the starting condition of a small tumor in their colon. The tumor takes at least 3-5 years to turn into a cancerous mass. This disease is also known as a “Silent Killer” because its symptoms will only show once the condition gets serious.

Risk factors of colon cancer

  • Consuming too much saturated fat type of food; fast food, low fiber, burnt grilled foods and preserved food
  • Drinking alcohol and smoking
  • Lack of exercise or office behavior(sitting at the same position for a long time)
  • Having a problem in excretory system ex. Inflammatory Bowel Disease, chronic constipation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Age older than 50 years old
  • A family history of colon cancer or other types of cancers
  • A history of colon cancer or tumor of the intestine with Adenomatous Polyp type

Symptoms of colon cancer

  • Early Stage: Blood in stool, chronic constipation or abdominal discomfort
  • Spread Stage: Liver is the place where colon cancer commonly spread to. Patients may experience abdominal pain around the liver or under the right rib cage.  The damaged liver causes a yellowish discoloration of the patient’s body and eyes.

Healing colon cancer

  Patients with colon cancer condition have a chance to be cured if the cancerous tumor was removed.  In more complicated case which has bigger cancerous mass, chemotherapy and targeted therapy can reduce the mass size until it is removable by surgery.

Diagnosing colon cancer

  The latest diagnosis method available is Colonoscopy. Besides diagnosing a colon cancer, colonoscopy is also used as a tool to cut off the tumor that is likely to develop to become a cancer.

When should I get my colon checked?

  Normally, people should get their colon check-up when they turned 50 years old. In case a person has a family history of colon cancer; parents or siblings age less than 55 years old has been found to have higher risk of acquiring colon cancer. Hence, these group should get a colon check-up 5 years earlier than the age when their relative was found to have colon cancer. For example, if one of your parents or siblings was found with a colon cancer at age 49 years old, you should get a colonoscopy when you turned 44 years old.

Check out our different Screening Packages for different needs 

A doctor will try to manage hypertension by recommending lifestyle changes, such as following the heart beneficial diet, and prescribing medications. For more information on medical services at CIH, please call:

City International Hospital

  • Operator: (8428) 6280 3333, ext. 0
  • Address: No. 3, 17A Street, Binh Tri Dong B Ward, Binh Tan Dist. (Next to AEON Mall Binh Tan). Ho Chi Minh City.
  • Website: https://cih.com.vn/en/
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