Colon Cancer Symptoms – Colorectal Cancer Symptoms
Don’t forget that early stages of colon cancer usually don’t show any symptoms. Therefore, regular screening is very crucial and very effective, especially for family history of colon cancer or after age of 50’s. These symptoms could be divided into two types as local and systemic.
Symptoms of Local Colon Cancer
This type of symptoms generally makes impact on your colon habits that would change bowel itself. If you experience any of following symptoms for two or more weeks, you should see doctor, and check your symptoms with appropriate tests and examinations.
We can summarize local colon cancer symptoms as follows:
• Typically main changes seen in bowel habits, and frequency of movements increase or decrease and overall some abnormality could felt by patient.
• When bowel movements become difficult for person and it feels like constipation. Oppositely, water content of stools could increase and diarrhea would be seen. These abnormalities would be continuously occur and change with other one and repeat unpredictable way. Moreover, chronic constipation or diarrhea could be severe, thus you should see your doctor.
• Stool color could change, such as bright red, black or dark red blood could be seen. If you are in the risk group, you should try to check you stool for bloody colors which could be occurred, because of various severe infections/diseases include hemorrhoids and colon cancer. Unfortunately, blood in stool cannot be easily seen with naked eye, that why fecal tests (FOBT) would check your blood in stool.
• Stools shape could change as becoming thinner. This can point out the possible obstruction that there may blocking the passage of stool. Worst cause would be a tumor or other reasons involve benign polyp (which could be easily removed) or hemorrhoids.
• Feeling that bowels full can show the presence of a tumor, which is the source of feeling the bowel full.
• Gas pains and cramps. This frequently happen when the bowel system is blocked by a tumor. Gas pains are also widespread symptom since tumor blockage doesn’t permit the gas to pass through easily to be removed from body.
• Rectal pain: This type of pain infrequently seen with colon cancer and could be a sign of a huge tumor in the rectum that may attack to nearby tissue.
Symptoms of Systemic Colon Cancer
Systemic colon cancer symptoms generally affect the whole body, and these factors could be summarized as follows:
• Involuntary weight loss which is highly related with loss of appetite
• Baffling exhaustion and weakness can be related to colon cancer and many other less serious conditions
• Nausea
• Decrease in red blood cell amount and similarly iron content in red blood cells, would indicate the bloody stool that cause anemia.
• One of the rare symptom is the yellow skin as called Jaundice
See Your Doctor:
Forget the shyness and postpones, because the early detection of small tumor or benign polyp is easily removed and healthier prognosis would be provided.
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