Blood in the stool may not be caused by hemorrhoids

Mr. Shen, who lives in Hebei, is over 60 years old this year. He didn’t look fat in his early years, but he has lost weight in recent years. His bowel movements are not the same as before. He is often constipated and often has blood in his stool. Mr. Shen is not afraid of seeing blood in his stool because he has had similar situations before. When he was young, he always had hemorrhoids, which made him suffer a lot. So he didn’t dare to delay and went to the hospital for a check-up. The result was beyond Mr. Shen’s expectation.

The colonoscopy biopsy report showed that Mr. Shen’s bloody stool was not caused by hemorrhoids, but by colorectal cancer in the rectum, which had already developed to the middle stage and should be treated with surgery as soon as possible.

The doctor told Mr. Shen that although his colorectal cancer was not discovered early enough, it had not yet metastasized to other organs. If it could be removed surgically in time, the prognosis would still be very good.

Mr. Shen didn't understand why he was already in the middle stage of cancer when he just felt a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, he was afraid of the pain of hemorrhoids and came to the hospital for a check-up in time, otherwise he didn't know how long it would last.

In fact, the doctor said that Mr. Shen’s situation is very common, because the initial symptom of cancer occurring near the end of the large intestine is often only occult blood in the stool, which is a symptom that cannot be identified by the naked eye. Therefore, many patients do not realize that they have obvious symptoms until the cancer has already developed to the middle stage.