In the past few years, a trend moving upwards has been noticeable with bowel cancer cases in clinical practice, which is often closely linked to the daily diet and living habits of people.
Like all other kinds of cancers, bowel cancer is to be treated at an early stage in a very critical manner. Therefore, paying attention to one’s own health should become a habit for everyone in daily life. If an individual notices an abnormality in his/her body, he/she should undoubtedly seek medical advice and find out his/her health status at the doctor. After telling the doctor the specific condition, the doctor will provide the corresponding treatment.
So what are ways that this disease can be recognized at an early stage by the patient himself? The doctor said that 3 symptoms may indicate that bowel cancer has arrived. One of them needs to be treated immediately if it is found.
1. Haematochezia
Blood in the stool is a symptom that is very obvious in cancer of the large bowel and is usually accompanied with the release of blood due to ulcers in the intestines which is caused by the tumor proliferation and degeneration. Many bowel cancer patients will, however, wrongly think that the bleeding which accompanies them is caused by hemorrhoids, but the truth is that there is a very clear difference between the two. The blood in the stool associated with bowel cancer is generally of a dark color, and the blood and feces tend to be mixed together.
Besides blood, there can be pus, from which the stool is contaminated, while the blood coming from hemorrhoids is more vividly colored, and the blood only attaches to the stool surface. At the same time, the anus may also have varying degrees of pain.
2. Abdominal pain
When a tumor is present in the intestines, it is very likely that the intestinal cavity will become narrowed. If a tumor is located in the colon, it is also very possible that the symptoms of intestinal obstruction will be induced, which will lead to abdominal pain and various other discomforts such as being bloated. Due to the fact that one may have abdominal pain for different reasons, people usually do not suspect that the pain they feel is related to bowel cancer and that is why they sometimes ignore it.
The abdominal pain caused by bowel cancer is usually a dull one, most of the time it is intermittent and occasionally persistent, however, the majority of the abdominal pains of other bowel diseases are stronger, so everyone should be very careful when making a distinction.
3. Altered shape of stool
Once the tumor is of a certain size, it will definitely make the stool space be squeezed to such an extent that this is the place where a person with the changed stool shape is determined. At this point, the feces discharged from the patient’s body may be thin or flat, and more often than not, when this kind of situation happens, it means that the stool with a thin or flat shape is your own tumor that has progressed to a more serious stage. So be sure to pay enough attention.
The above are some of the more common manifestations of bowel cancer in the early stage. Obviously, if bowel cancer is only diagnosed from a bunch of external symptoms, it can easily cause false positive and false negative cases. Hence, from a stringent viewpoint, encountering this When there is a series of abnormal manifestations, it is best to go to the hospital for a bowel cancer screening without delay. By performing a colonoscopy, the lesions that have taken place in the intestines can be detected And early-stage bowel cancer can also be given timely and effective intervention, which is very significant.
Especially for people at high risk of bowel cancer, such as those with a history of bowel cancer, familial intestinal polyps, people over 50 years old, and people who often suffer from abdominal pain and diarrhea and blood in the stool, they should pay more attention to their intestinal health in their daily lives. The best way to prevent disease is to have regular check-ups at the hospital.
To sum up, bowel cancer is generally accompanied by very faint symptoms in the early stages. Therefore, everyone in daily life should be very vigilant in noticing any abnormal symptoms of the body, such as bloody stool, abdominal pain, and abnormal stool shape, which are very likely to be signals of bowel cancer. Being of the highest sensitivity to everyone. After the discovery, it is “necessary to go to the hospital for relevant examinations to clarify the specific causes of the disease”.
Of course, it is equally good for other people to make it a regular habit to come for bowel cancer screening in the hospital. Thus early lesions can only be detected and managed on time and by this prevention, the minor diseases will not grow into serious diseases due to delay.
When faced with “good health, I hope each one of us will not become recklessly indifferent. After all, even when we are young and at our peak, it is not guaranteed that we can escape the attack of disease 100%”
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