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Is Bowel Cancer Relapse Causing Lumps In Intestine?
Hi my dad has bowel cancer... He had it a couple of years ago, had surgery and chemo and then the all clear... But it's back - apparently he has some lumps in his intestine, they not operating and going straight to chemo.... He half way through his chemo and he is virtually bed ridden and not eating/drinking and has a tube from his stomach draining out dark green liquid - and they are pumping fluids into him like no ones business... The docs as the hospital say he may have an infection.... But I'm not so sure... I've not got rose tinted glasses - i think its the cancer. I am just curious about the dark green liquid that they are pumping out of him... What is it?
Fri, 2 Jan 2015
The dark green liquid coming out is called bile. It is a liquid that is normally produced in the human body in everyone. It is coming out because it cannot go forward in the intestines probably due to blockage by the lumps in the intestines. It is not an abnormal fluid, nor related to his disease or infection or chemotherapy.
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