Patients with rectal cancer sometimes experience rectal irritation symptoms

Sometimes, patients with rectal cancer may also experience rectal irritation symptoms, and patients discover their condition through these symptoms. Do you know what the general symptoms of rectal cancer are? This is a question that people ask a lot, so let the experts explain it to you in detail.

The main symptoms of rectal cancer are as follows:

1. Symptoms of intestinal stenosis

The symptoms of rectal cancer include intestinal stenosis caused by cancer invasion. Initially, the stool becomes deformed and thinner. When it causes partial obstruction of the intestine, there are abdominal pain, bloating, hyperactive bowel sounds and other manifestations of incomplete intestinal obstruction.

2. Rectal irritation symptoms

Frequent urge to defecate and changes in bowel habits; a feeling of falling in the anus, tenesmus, and incomplete defecation before defecation, and lower abdominal pain in the late stage are symptoms of rectal cancer.

3. Symptoms of rectal ulcer infection

Symptoms of rectal cancer include blood and mucus on the surface of the stool, or even bloody and purulent stool. The frequency of symptoms is 80% to 90% blood in the stool, 60% to 70% frequent stool, 40% thin stool, 35% mucous stool, 20% anal pain, 20% tenesmus, and 10% constipation. If the cancer invades the prostate and bladder, frequent urination, painful urination, and hematuria may occur. Invasion of the presacral nerve may cause severe and persistent pain in the sacral and coccygeal region. In the late stage, liver metastasis may cause ascites, hepatomegaly, jaundice, anemia, weight loss, edema, cachexia, etc.

The above is the explanation given by experts on the symptoms of rectal cancer. I hope it can help you answer your questions. Experts remind everyone that if you suffer from any disease in your daily life, you must not delay treatment. This is very dangerous. Some diseases will worsen or cause other diseases.