Colon and Rectal Cancer: Prior to Diagnosis
Signs and Symptoms of Colorectal Cancer
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The following are the most common signs and symptoms of colorectal cancer. If you have any of these symptoms, talk to your doctor without delay about getting screened. The sooner colorectal cancer is found, the more likely it can be totally eliminated.
- Bleeding from the rectum.
- Blood in your stool. The blood can appear as red (from bright red to brick red) or it can turn the stool black and tarry.
- A change in your bowel habits that lasts for more than a few days. For example:
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- A combination of both constipation and diarrhea
- A narrowing of your stool (called pencil stools).
- Continuous abdominal cramping.
- An abdominal pain that continues for more than a few days.
- Feeling that your bowels are full after having a bowel movement (also referred to as incomplete evacuation).
- Weakness or fatigue.
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