If you have bowel cancer, what abnormalities may appear in your stool?
Xiao Li is 27 years old this year. He is a constipation patient. It takes three to four days on average to defecate once. Sometimes he needs to use Kaisailu to expel it because of difficulty in defecation. In recent days , Xiao Li found that the interval between defecation Not only is it longer, but it also occasionally bleeds , which frightens her, and she rushes to the hospital for treatment.
After the diagnosis, the doctor suggested that Xiao Li undergo a painless gastroscopy to see if it was a gastrointestinal tumor. When Xiao Li heard about the tumor, his face turned pale with fright. The doctor hurriedly explained that it was just a simple investigation, because there are many young people suffering from bowel cancer now, and this reason should be ruled out.
After examination, a tumor was found in Xiao Li's rectum, but the good news is that it was discovered in time, and it can be treated with surgery with 70% certainty.
Why is the incidence of bowel cancer getting higher and younger now? What are the reasons?
- Why are there more and more patients with bowel cancer? What is the "curse"?
1. Sugary drinks
Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has increased globally in recent years, and there is also evidence that high consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages contributes to obesity while increasing the risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. An estimated 184,000 deaths worldwide each year are attributable to sugary drinks.
Studies have shown that women who drink sugar-sweetened beverages every day during adolescence, from the age of 13 to 18, have a 32% increased risk of colorectal cancer before the age of 50.
Therefore , it is an undeniable fact that sugary drinks will increase the risk of colorectal cancer . From a health point of view, we must control our daily sugar intake and try to quit sugary drinks.
2. High-fat diet
Colorectal cancer is not a gradual evolution. For example, most of them are transformed from colon inflammation, polyps, etc., and dietary factors account for a large proportion of this process, which is why more and more young people have bowel cancer.
Studies have shown that men respond poorly to high-fat diets, and high-fat diets for a long time can increase inflammation and cell proliferation , thereby increasing the risk of rectal cancer.
3. Overweight and obesity
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world. At first, it was more common in the elderly, but now due to changes in society and lifestyles, colorectal cancer patients are increasingly younger.
Obesity is one of the important risk factors for colorectal cancer , which has been the consensus of various experts and professors. Recently, the German Cancer Research Center team published a study in the journal Gastroenterology, confirming that early adult obesity is closely related to an increased risk of early- onset colorectal cancer, and called on everyone to lose weight and prevent early-onset colorectal cancer, starting from the age of 20.
Therefore, with the rejuvenation of colorectal cancer, for young obese people, it is necessary to increase the weight loss schedule, and at the same time do a good job in early screening, early detection and early treatment of colorectal cancer.
4. Sedentary
People who are sedentary have higher rates of cancer, including colorectal cancer, according to new research , which increases the risk of colorectal cancer by leading to the accumulation of body fat.
At the same time, being sedentary also increases the risk of death in cancer patients. A Swedish research team has shown that exercise can increase the activity of the immune system and make it more effective against tumor cells.
5. Take antibiotics
Recently, studies have shown that the use of antibiotics will increase the risk of rectal cancer, but the effect on rectal cancer is low, and this risk is affected to a certain extent by the type and class of drugs.
The researchers said that the use of antibiotics must be used under the guidance of a doctor, and do not use medicines casually when there is a little inflammation. Not only may it have little anti-inflammatory effect, but it may also cause intestinal cancer.
- There are three abnormalities in the stool, be alert to bowel cancer!
1. Abnormal frequency of defecation
After cancer cells appear in the intestinal tract, the cancer cells quickly stimulate them and accelerate their reproduction, and the intestinal mucosa is damaged, resulting in abnormal defecation frequency of the patient.
For example, a person who usually defecates once a day may become defecating once every few days, or several times a day. Of course, this situation may occur due to changes in the usual eating habits, but if this phenomenon still occurs after you have not changed your eating habits or returned to normal eating habits, you must be alert to whether there is an abnormality in the intestinal tract.
2. The shape of the stool changes (for example, the stool becomes thinner and thinner)
After the intestinal mucosa is invaded by cancer cells, the stool properties of people will also change.
Due to the proliferation of cancer cells in the rectum, it is easy for patients to experience tenesmus. Some patients may block the rectum due to too many cancer cells, making the excreted stools become thinner and thinner, and some patients even Patients will experience intractable constipation, unable to expel stool from the body for a long time, resulting in abdominal distension, abdominal pain and other symptoms .
3. Abnormal color or bloody stool
The stool of a healthy person should be yellow or dark yellow. If you eat foods rich in iron, it will also cause the stool to turn black. If a large number of cancer cells invade the intestinal mucosa, the intestinal mucosa will be damaged, which is easy to cause bleeding.
If the bleeding is in the large intestine and the bleeding time is relatively long, the patient is likely to pass black stools ; if the bleeding is in the rectum and the bleeding time is relatively short, the patient may pass bloody stools.