If poor nutrition, chronic disease or antibiotics disturb this delicate balance, the body can become vulnerable to problems like bacteria and fungal overgrowth or infectious diarrhea.
And this is due to mutations in the TSC1 or TSC2 tumor suppressor genes, genes that usually suppress tumor growth, therefore a mutation leads to myocyte overgrowth.
Terms such as " mass" and " lump" are used to describe any overgrowth of tissue. However, these terms may not necessarily mean that such growths contain cancer cells.
The cells lining the colon and rectum are constantly dividing, and typically when there's an overgrowth of tissue it's benign, but some can become malignant, meaning that the dividing cells can start invading nearby tissues over time.