What are the symptoms of late-stage rectal cancer in the last month?

What are the symptoms in the last month of advanced colorectal cancer?

The last month of advanced rectal cancer is characterized by changes in stool characteristics, abdominal pain, and systemic symptoms.

1. Changes in stool characteristics: Patients may experience increased bowel movements and diarrhea, often accompanied by urgency and heaviness, and difficulty in defecation. Some patients may experience deformed and thinned stools. After ulceration on the surface of cancer, the stool may contain blood, which may be dark red or blood, and there is often mucus on the surface of the stool.

2. Abdominal pain: Anal prolapse occurs before defecation, and some patients may also experience dull pain or pain in the lower abdomen. When rectal cancer causes intestinal stenosis, patients may experience symptoms such as abdominal distension, paroxysmal abdominal pain, abdominal colic, hyperactive bowel sounds, and difficulty in defecation.

3. Systemic symptoms: Systemic symptoms may also appear in the later stage, such as distant metastasis, brain metastasis, headache, vomiting, limb convulsions, etc. Multiple nodules in both lungs, pleural effusion, dyspnea, etc. can lead to lung metastasis. Symptoms of liver metastasis include jaundice, loss of appetite, multiple space-occupying lesions in the liver, etc. If bone metastasis occurs, it may cause symptoms such as body pain and back pain.

Patients with advanced colorectal cancer are advised to follow the doctor's advice for treatment, which can prolong their lives. If you feel any discomfort, you must seek help from a professional doctor in time.