Symptoms of advanced rectal cancer

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Rectal cancer is a highly malignant disease. Among all the patients who died of gastrointestinal diseases, rectal cancer accounts for about 40%, which shows the severity of this disease. In fact, the main culprit of this disease is diet and patients' own lifestyle, so it is extremely important to maintain a healthy lifestyle for the prevention of colorectal cancer. In the incidence of rectal cancer, the ratio of male to female is about three to one, and the peak age of incidence is mainly concentrated in 30 to 40 years old. Let's learn more about the symptoms of advanced rectal cancer.

Symptoms of advanced rectal cancer

Symptom 1: rectal cancer growth to a certain extent can appear bloody stool symptoms. A small amount of bleeding is not easy to find with the naked eye, but a large number of red blood cells can be found when using the microscope to check the feces. The so-called fecal occult blood test is positive. When the amount of bleeding is large, there can be bloody stool, and the blood color is bright red or dark red. When the surface of cancer ulcers, the formation of ulcers, tumor necrosis infection, can appear pus blood, mucus bloody stool, this is the symptom of rectal cancer.

Symptom 2: patients can have varying degrees of feeling, anal drop feeling, sometimes diarrhea, which is also a common symptom of rectal cancer.

Symptom 3: when rectal tumor causes intestinal stenosis, intestinal obstruction symptoms (abdominal pain, abdominal distension, difficult defecation) of different degrees may appear, abdominal pain and bowel sounds before defecation, and symptoms are relieved after defecation. Defecation variable thin, with groove, is one of the symptoms of rectal cancer.

matters needing attention

Note that patients with rectal cancer, must pay more attention to defecation after surgery, can be appropriate exercise, exercise can alleviate the occurrence of constipation, but also eat more vegetables, fruits, eat more cellulose rich food.