Is prolonged dull hardness a sign of bowel cancer?

Prolonged hidden pain with hard lumps may be bowel cancer or benign diseases such as intestinal tuberculosis and Crohn’s disease. 1. Bowel cancer: Bowel cancer is a cancer that occurs in intestinal epithelium, and its manifestation lacks specificity, which can be manifested as diarrhea or constipation, abdominal pain, abdominal mass, intestinal obstruction and other symptoms. With the development of the disease, there will also be emaciation, weakness and other manifestations. Therefore, long-term abdominal pain and lumps can be the manifestation of intestinal cancer, and perfect tumor marker test, colonoscopy, pathological biopsy and other tests can help to determine whether you have intestinal cancer. 2. Intestinal tuberculosis: Intestinal tuberculosis mostly occurs in the ileocecal part, which is a chronic infectious disease, mostly manifested as vague pain in the right lower abdomen, and abdominal mass can be touched in the case of proliferative lesions. Patients with intestinal tuberculosis are often accompanied by prolonged low-grade fever, night sweats, fatigue and other manifestations, through the tuberculin test, colonoscopy and other tests can help to identify. 3. Crohn’s disease: Crohn’s disease is a kind of chronic inflammatory granulomatous disease, mostly involving the terminal ileum and neighboring colon, and its typical manifestations are abdominal pain in the right lower abdomen or umbilicus, diarrhea, and perianal lesions, etc. 10-20% of the patients can palpate abdominal mass due to the intestinal adhesion, which can be diagnosed by colonoscopy and CT typical manifestations. 4. The appearance of hidden pain and hard lumps may also be caused by fecal accumulation. However, the long-term occurrence of the above symptoms is often considered the existence of chronic diseases, should be timely to the hospital for consultation, according to individual differences in the condition of the individual to give individualized treatment.