Does small amount of bowel movements every day mean colon cancer?

If you simply have a small amount of stool every day and there is nothing abnormal in your body, it is usually not colon cancer. However, if you have a small amount of stool every day and are accompanied by other symptoms, it may be colon cancer. You need to go to the hospital for relevant examinations to make a clear diagnosis. The specific analysis is as follows:

1. Not colorectal cancer: If you simply have a small amount of stool every day and there is nothing abnormal in your body, it is not colorectal cancer. It is considered that it is due to overeating, drinking less water, staying up late for a long time, etc., which leads to insufficient intestinal water and nutrition, and decreased digestive ability, making it difficult to excrete feces. You can help excrete feces by adjusting your diet and exercising more.

2. It may be colorectal cancer: If there is also abdominal mass, lumbar pain and similar symptoms to intestinal obstruction, it may be colorectal cancer. Because in the early stage of colorectal cancer, patients will show symptoms such as increased bowel movements, diarrhea and constipation, and the characteristics of stool will also change. As the disease worsens, it will affect the surrounding tissues and nerves, and abdominal symptoms, lumbar pain and other symptoms will appear. Individualized treatment is required, such as surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, etc.

It is recommended that patients go to the hospital for further diagnosis by tumor markers, immunohistochemistry and genetic testing, abdominal CT and other related examinations. It is not recommended to diagnose the disease based on a single symptom.