How long can you live with rectal cancer and bleeding?

How long can you live if you have rectal cancer and bleeding?

1. It is generally unclear how long a patient with rectal cancer can live after having blood in stool.

2. Rectal cancer refers to a malignant tumor originating from the epithelial cells of the rectal mucosa. It is one of the common malignant tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. The patient has no obvious symptoms in the early stage. When the tumor progresses to a certain extent, it affects defecation or ulcer bleeding. The frequency of local symptoms is blood in the stool, frequent stool, mucus stool, anal pain, urgency, and constipation. Rectal cancer patients usually have severe blood in the stool at this time. The prognosis is usually related to the specific stage of rectal cancer, so it is generally unclear how long rectal cancer patients can live.

3. When patients have repeated unexplained abdominal pain, blood in the stool, abdominal mass, recent weight loss, fatigue and other symptoms, they should seek medical attention in time. The doctor will first perform a physical examination, routine blood test, fecal occult blood test, and tumor marker test to get a preliminary understanding of the patient's condition. Then ultrasound, CT, MRI, endoscopy, etc. will be performed to further understand the condition. Pathological examination can help doctors clarify the nature of the disease.