As the prevalence of cancer in the population today rectal cancer and colon cancer (also called colorectal cancer) are the leaders. And carry these tumors every year thousands and thousands of lives.
From the above two kinds of the most common cancer of the colon. And warning signs of the disease people are very often overlooked.
Symptoms of colorectal cancer are directly dependent on the location of the tumor, the degree of its development and the impact on surrounding organs. According to one feature of the reason to establish unlikely, but several disease easier to identify.
Negative symptoms doctors include:
1. Rapid and unexplained weight loss. It is characteristic of cancer and rectum, and colon. If less than six months and lost 5kg or more, is cause for medical consultation, passing inspection.
Why then, the mechanism of weight loss? Cancer cells deplete the energy reserves of the organism. To fight with them and spending power the immune system. In addition, cancer cells attack the body with harmful substances disturbing the natural processes of food assimilation. Energy as a result of simply not formed, which also leads to weight loss.
2. Weakness, exhaustion. Although, in principle, with the depletion of weakness should not be confused. Tired for various reasons, and that's fine. However, if after proper rest fatigue does not pass, we can talk about the depletion of reserves. In addition to colorectal cancer, such a state can be a sign of diabetes, diseases of the cardiovascular system, anemia.
3. Abdominal cramps. Cramping, bloating, abdominal pain - all these are signs of a variety of pathologies. However, if the cramps are durable and appeared suddenly and not so long ago, it is necessary to be surveyed.
4. Fecal blood. This is serious. Sometimes when going to the toilet patient notices small red spots in the stool or on toilet paper. And it is a reason to see a doctor. At the source of rectal bleeding, as a rule, it is in the rectum and it is very reliable symptom of colorectal cancer, although many attribute to his hemorrhoids.
5. Changes in the frequency and nature of faeces. If going to the toilet became much more likely / less, and a chair - a narrower, it is an occasion for a medical examination. Perhaps, intestinal polyps or clot entangling cells have evolved over time in cancer.
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