What are the early symptoms of rectal cancer?

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Rectal cancer is a kind of malignant tumor of digestive tract, which seriously disturbs the life of patients. What are the clinical symptoms of rectal cancer? I have consulted some materials and now share them with you. I hope it will be helpful to you.

What are the early symptoms of rectal cancer?

The majority of rectal cancer patients' stool habits will change, the number of stools will become more, the stool will become thinner, in addition, there will be poor defecation and liver discomfort and other symptoms, patients will appear anal drop feeling before defecation.

In the early stage of the disease, more than half of the patients will have hematochezia. Generally speaking, the amount of bleeding in the early stage is relatively small, which is easy to be ignored. In addition, blood generally exists on the surface of feces, sometimes accompanied by abdominal pain.

Rectal cancer may have metastasis of cancer cells. The common sites of metastasis are liver, bone and lung, which may lead to some symptoms. Rectal cancer with liver metastasis will have hepatomegaly, jaundice, ascites and other symptoms, to the bladder will appear frequent urination, urination pain, dysuria and other symptoms, metastasis to the lung may appear cough, chest pain, hemoptysis and other symptoms.

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Suffering from rectal cancer may also cause loss of appetite, general weakness, emaciation, weight loss, anemia and so on.