What are the main symptoms of rectal cancer?

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Rectal cancer is a common malignant tumor in the gastrointestinal tract. According to the survey, the incidence rate is only third in the digestive tract cancer, next to the stomach and esophagus cancer. The early symptoms of rectal cancer are more secret, almost asymptomatic, and the late symptoms of rectal cancer are more obvious, but the treatment is quite difficult. Prevention of rectal cancer, fight for the best treatment time is the key, which requires more understanding of early symptoms of rectal cancer. So the main symptoms of rectal cancer now tell us.

What are the main symptoms of rectal cancer?

Hematochezia: is the most common symptom of rectal cancer, but often ignored by patients or misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids and delayed treatment, make the condition worse. Hematochezia is mostly red or dark red, mixed with mucus bloody stool, or pus bloody stool, sometimes accompanied by blood clots and necrotic tissue.

Change of defecation habits: due to the mass and its secretion, it can produce symptoms of intestinal irritation, frequent defecation, lack of diurnal sensation, irritability and other symptoms, but the discharge is mostly mucus pus and blood. At first, these "pseudo diarrhea" phenomena often occur soon after getting up in the morning, which is called morning diarrhea. Later, the frequency gradually increased, even at night can not sleep, changed the past defecation habits.

Intestinal stricture and obstruction: the cancer infiltrates around the circumference of the intestinal wall, making the intestinal cavity narrow, especially at the junction of rectum and sigmoid colon. Most of them are stenotic hard cancer, which is easy to cause obstruction. Rectal ampullary carcinoma is mostly ulcerative. It is estimated that the ampulla is relatively wide. It takes about 1 to 2 years to cause obstruction, narrowing of stool, difficulty in defecation, constipation, abdominal discomfort, bloating and pain. Due to the accumulation of feces, a cord like mass can be found in the upper part of the obstruction, sometimes in the left lower abdomen.

matters needing attention

If you find that your holy body health has unexplained symptoms, you should go to the hospital in time. Don't delay the diagnosis, the best treatment time and the illness.