Blood in stool is the most common symptom of hemorrhoids, and many people are used to it. However, blood in stool can also be a symptom of colorectal cancer, and we have seen that many patients often mistake blood in stool for hemorrhoids and delay the diagnosis and the best time for treatment, and even lose their precious lives for nothing. So is blood in stool hemorrhoids? Or is it cancer? — To the regular hospital for anal diagnosis or colonoscopy can be distinguished. Of course, you can also distinguish it by some simple methods: Colorectal cancer: Most of the blood in the stool of colorectal cancer is dark red, which is usually confused with stool, and in the middle and late stages, pus and blood stool can appear. Besides the symptom of blood in stool, the change of stool habit is also a typical symptom of colorectal cancer, such as thinning of stool and increase of frequency, etc. should be alerted to go to regular hospital for examination. Hemorrhoids: blood in stool usually occurs after defecation, in the form of dripping blood or jet, bright red blood, blood and feces do not mix; hemorrhoids cause blood in stool with varying amount of bleeding, some intermittent bleeding in stool. In some cases, bleeding is intermittent. In severe cases, bleeding is inevitable in every bowel movement. Tumor treatment is concerned about early detection, active colonoscopy, anal fingerprinting examination can greatly improve the early detection rate of colon cancer, and encourage people over 45 years old to have at least one colonoscopy examination. Because the treatment effect of early detection can be very good, and even cure the tumor (Simply speaking, if bowel cancer is detected in early stage, the survival period of the patients can reach 5-20 years, or even lifelong; if it is detected in the middle stage, the majority of the survival period is in 3-5 years; if the bowel cancer has already developed to the advanced stage, the general survival period is in 8 months to 1 year). It would be bad to avoid the examination due to fear of tumor instead, and once it comes to the point of having to do a colonoscopy maybe it is at an advanced stage. Therefore, when there is blood in the stool, change in bowel habits, weight loss, unexplained anemia and other symptoms, it is important to go to the regular hospital in a timely manner, and as a general health checkup encourages people over 45 years of age to undergo at least one colonoscopy. Of course there are many causes of blood in the stool, the purpose of this article is to remind you can not simply think that the bloody stool is hemorrhoids again, many other causes and diseases may also lead to bloody stool, we should find the root cause of the problem and then carry out formal treatment.