If one’s gastrointestinal system is not good, one’s body will definitely have many problems, not to mention that young people nowadays are busy with their work all day long, so they don’t eat well, and if they have time to eat, they eat, but if they don’t, they don’t. Do you know what are the early symptoms and manifestations of intestinal cancer? What are the early symptoms of rectal cancer? Many people are curious about how long they can live with bowel cancer, so let’s see how long they can live.
Early symptoms and manifestations of bowel cancer
Bowel cancer is often dragged out by yourself for a long time, many people have simple stomach pain and abdominal pain in the early stage, but they don’t care much about it, just take some gastrointestinal medicine to stop the pain, in fact, this will only aggravate your gastrointestinal problems, then let’s see what are the early manifestations of bowel cancer.
1.Abdominal distension and abdominal pain
Many people often have these two symptoms because they are hungry and have stomach pain, and they think they are eating bad stomach, so they either eat a bit of gastrointestinal tablets or gastrointestinal medicine, thinking that it is solved, but in fact, it is still more serious.
In fact, the real reason for abdominal pain and bloating is that your intestinal tract has been disordered for a long time, and also because of intestinal obstruction, which usually leads to vague abdominal pain, and if not treated in time, it will turn into intestinal cancer.
2.Blood in stool
Because the lesion is closer to the anus, the blood color is mostly bright red or dark red, and the blood and stool are often separated. Only when the amount of bleeding is high, the stool will be brownish red and jam-like. There are such patients with right hemi colon cancer, and blood in the stool visible to the naked eye accounts for 36. 5%. This also belongs to the early symptoms of colorectal cancer.
3.Anemia
When the long-term chronic blood loss exceeds the compensatory function of hematopoiesis, the patient will have anemia, which is an early symptom of colorectal cancer. Tumor obstruction, when the tumor grows to a considerable size or infiltrates the muscle layer of intestinal wall, it can cause narrowing of intestinal canal, small intestinal lumen and obstruction of intestinal content.
4.Changes in stool habit and trait
Patients with rectal cancer may have more frequent stool, but not much stool each time, or even no stool at all, only some mucus and blood are discharged, and there is discharge of mucus and blood.
5.Symptoms of bowel irritation
Frequent bowel movement, diarrhea or constipation, sometimes alternating constipation and diarrhea, urgency, anal swelling, and often vague abdominal pain.
6.Intestinal obstructionIntestinal obstruction
Left hemi-colon cancer obstruction is common. Ulcerated or hyperplastic type, colon cancer spreads around the intestinal wall and infiltrates to narrow the intestinal cavity causing obstruction, which is often chronic incomplete mechanical intestinal obstruction with abdominal distension and abdominal discomfort first, then paroxysmal abdominal pain, hyperactive bowel sounds, constipation or thin stool (pencil shape, sheep stool shape) so that exhaustion and defecation stop.
Early symptoms of rectal cancer
1.Pus, blood and mucus in stool.
2.Changes in stool habits, increased frequency or diarrhea, urgency and heaviness.
3.Blood in stool or black stool.
4.Shape of stool changes, becoming thin, flat or with grooves.
5. Alternating diarrhea and constipation.
6.Sudden weight loss.
7.Anemia of unknown origin.
8.Abdominal distension, abdominal pain, indigestion, loss of appetite.
9.Lumps in the anus or abdomen.
10.Multiple polyps or papillary adenomas are found.