Symptoms and treatment of rectal cancer

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Some time ago, my friend's father found out that he suffered from rectal cancer. In his daily life, he had symptoms of stool bleeding. After going to the hospital, he found that it was rectal cancer. For patients with rectal cancer, I will tell you about the symptoms and treatment of rectal cancer.

Symptoms and treatment of rectal cancer

Symptoms: General cachexia, advanced cancer, patients with loss of appetite, emaciation, fatigue, anemia, jaundice, ascites and other treatment methods can use surgery, surgery is divided into radical and palliative surgery.

Treatment: compared with palliative surgery, radical surgery can basically remove cancer, but there will be residual cancer, or regional lymph node metastasis, or the presence of tumor thrombus in blood vessels, so the probability of recurrence and metastasis is very high.

Symptoms: 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.

matters needing attention

When long-term chronic blood loss, more than the body's hematopoietic compensatory function, patients can appear anemia, this early symptom of colon cancer. Tumor obstruction, when the tumor grows to a considerable volume, or infiltrates the muscular layer of the intestinal wall, can cause intestinal stenosis, intestinal cavity smaller, intestinal content through obstruction. ?