What are the symptoms of internal hemorrhoids and rectal cancer

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Uncle recently, his stool is always bleeding, and his stool is dry and hard. He thought it was hemorrhoids. As a result, he went to the hospital and was diagnosed with early rectal cancer. Let me introduce the symptoms of internal hemorrhoids and rectal cancer.

What are the symptoms of internal hemorrhoids and rectal cancer

First: hemorrhoids are common anorectal diseases, mainly in adults, and incidence rate increases with age. The clinical manifestation of hemorrhoids is blood in stool, or mass prolapse from anus. According to the location, hemorrhoids can be divided into external hemorrhoids and internal hemorrhoids. Most hemorrhoids do not need any treatment, and have little effect on people's health.

Second: rectal cancer is a high incidence of gastrointestinal cancer, if not early diagnosis and treatment, can be life-threatening. It is easy to be misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids in the early stage of rectal cancer, some of which are self misdiagnosis of patients, some of which are conjectures of medical staff. The reason why there is a high misdiagnosis rate is that the clinical manifestations of rectal cancer and hemorrhoids have many similarities, such as bloody stool, increased stool frequency and so on. In fact, as long as patients are alert, early detection of rectal cancer is entirely possible.

Third: hemorrhoids hematochezia is characterized by bleeding during defecation, blood color is bright red, after defecation, hematochezia stops automatically; rectal cancer is stool with blood, in many cases mixed with mucus or pus, the color of this blood is darker than hemorrhoids bleeding. Second, rectal cancer will appear defecation habits change, such as defecation thin, increased frequency or constipation and diarrhea alternately. In addition, rectal cancer is often accompanied by other symptoms. Such as abdominal discomfort, abdominal distension or persistent pain. Due to tumor consumption, patients may also have anemia, weakness, weight loss, low fever and other systemic symptoms. If it is hemorrhoids, it rarely causes these discomfort.

matters needing attention

The symptoms of internal hemorrhoids and rectal cancer have some similarities, for example, there will be bloody stool symptoms, therefore, in medicine, rectal cancer is often misdiagnosed as internal hemorrhoids, so that patients miss the best treatment time, therefore, comprehensive examination is very important.