Early symptoms of rectal cancer

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Some time ago, my colleague's father found out that he suffered from rectal cancer. In his daily life, he often had symptoms of stool bleeding. Recently, he went to the hospital for surgical treatment, and now his condition has been controlled to a certain extent. Now I will tell you about the early symptoms of rectal cancer, so that you can have a deeper understanding of rectal cancer.

Early symptoms of rectal cancer

Symptom 1: change of defecation habits. Most patients with rectal cancer will change their defecation habits. They may have symptoms such as increased frequency of defecation, thin defecation and so on. They may also have symptoms such as poor defecation and discomfort of liver hilum. They may have a feeling of anal falling before defecation.

Symptom 2: bleeding in stool is one of the common symptoms of rectal cancer. In the early stage of the disease, more than half of the patients will have bleeding in stool, but the amount of bleeding in the early stage is generally less, which is easy to be ignored. Blood generally attached to the surface of feces, but also accompanied by abdominal pain, how to merge infection, this will appear purulent bloody stool.

Symptom 3: metastatic symptoms, rectal cancer can occur cancer cell metastasis phenomenon, common metastasis sites are liver, lung, bone, can lead to the corresponding symptoms. The symptoms of hepatomegaly, ascites and jaundice may occur when rectal cancer has liver metastasis, and cough and hemoptysis may occur when lung metastasis occurs.

matters needing attention

For patients with rectal cancer, we should have a positive and optimistic attitude to treat this disease. In daily life, we should also correct some bad habits in time, eat more food that is good for the body, mainly light liquid food, avoid contact with spicy and irritating food, and actively cooperate with the doctor treatment.