In recent years, the number of people suffering from bowel cancer is increasing, rising at a rate of 2% per year, and many patients are already in the middle and advanced stages once they are found.
Why are there more and more people suffering from bowel cancer, which have already reached an advanced stage?
Why is bowel cancer so hard to detect?
When some intestinal diseases occur, most people will have common symptoms such as abdominal distension, abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea.
However, these symptoms are very similar to the common symptoms of improper diet, indigestion or abdominal cold, and some common digestive tract diseases, so the average person will not pay attention to it at all.
When the symptoms of intestinal diseases are getting more and more serious, or they have entered the middle and advanced stages, patients begin to go to the doctor for examination.
Therefore, intestinal diseases are not easy to be detected, and the symptoms are not obvious, especially in the early stage of bowel cancer, the symptoms are also very mild, and it is not easy to be found.
However, once it develops to the middle and late stages, whether it is from the cure rate or the patient's life safety, the effect will be greatly reduced than in the early stage.
What are the early signs of bowel cancer?
1. Blood in the stool
In patients with rectal cancer, the first symptom is blood in the stool. It is because the feces rub against the tumor in the process of excretion, and the tumor will also rupture and bleed during the process of growth.
Even tumors shed some of their own tissues and mix into the feces and bloodstream to form purulent bloody stools.
2. The stool becomes thinner
Because the tumor grows in the intestine, it will cause the intestine to narrow or block the intestine, so that the stool will also be squeezed when it passes, so the excreted feces will become thinner, and then the patient will also have a feeling of inexhaustible defecation.
3. Abdominal pain
If you feel abdominal pain and bloating for a long time, it may also have a lot to do with malignant tumors in the intestine.
Because the tumor will gradually grow in the body, it will cause compression on the surrounding tissues and nerves, and abdominal pain will occur.
Even some people feel that the phenomenon of bloating is getting more and more serious, at this time, we should pay attention to it, and do not feel that it may be a common digestive tract disease and delay treatment.
4. Change in bowel habits
Under normal circumstances, most people's bowel habits are relatively stable and the time is relatively fixed, that is, maintaining regular bowel habits.
If there is a sudden change in the law of bowel movements, such as multiple bowel movements a day, or only once a few days, and the time of defecation is not fixed, then it should be vigilant against the occurrence of intestinal diseases and not exclude intestinal tumors.
5. The body is emaciated in a short period of time
In the process of tumor growth, it is necessary to consume the energy and nutrients of the body, so if there is a short period of weight loss in the absence of weight loss, it is also necessary to pay attention to the possibility of the presence of tumors.
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