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Diagnosed With Colon Cancer. Overweight And Had Hemorrhoids, Had Blood In Stool. Suggest?
My 45 year old sister just got diagnosed with colon cancer and showed no symptoms. I am 42 years old, overweight, and have had hemorrhoids for years. I have intermittently passed blood while having a bowel movement, sometimes a lot of blood or even a clot. I sometimes tend to be a hypochondriac and I have convinced myself that I have it too. Should I panic?
Fri, 27 Sep 2013
Hi, you have a symptom of passing blood clots which is not due to hemmoroids. intermittent passage of blood can happen in hemorroids or cancer.but cancer may also have other symptoms like palpable mass in abdoman, constipation, weight loss but these may not be in all the cases. you have to under go colonoscopy to rule out the possibality of a colon cancer as your sister already have the same.
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