The Lancet, a global authoritative medical journal, published a study that spans nearly 30 years: mortality rates and diseases caused by dietary structure in nearly 200 countries and regions in the world, among which the probability of various types of cancers and diseases caused by Chinese-style diet is very high and is still rising.
In my country, based on diet, the cancer of intestinal cancer can develop at an extremely fast speed; according to recent years' investigations, it is not difficult to find that from the mortality rate of various malignant tumors, intestinal cancer, gastric cancer, and lung cancer, is incomparable.
Compared with the other two, Intestinal cancer is more difficult to detect in the early stage. This is because it has more hidden and is very disguised. When our body has special problems with excretion, don’t take it lightly. This may be our body calling for help!
1 Nine out of ten life are unsatisfactory. Apart from close friends, the rest is delicious food. There are many people who hold this view, and Brother Wen is one of them.
As an old senior in a company who is nearly 40 years old but has a slim future, in addition to sitting in office chairs all day to deal with work and spending time, his biggest hobby is to enjoy delicious food with a few close friends; and Brother Wen is from Northeast China, and his taste is more of a heavy oil and spicy taste. Hotpot barbecue with beer is his weekly must-have program . His hobby is destined to suffer from gastrointestinal diseases.
At first, he only had the symptoms of constipation and bloody stool , but he didn't take it seriously. He just thought that he had hemorrhoids , so he bought some medicines to treat hemorrhoids to relieve the symptoms; however, over time, he gradually developed persistent abdominal pain and capricious constipation and diarrhea. Asked , which forced him to go to the hospital for examination.
Then, the doctor performed colonoscopy for him and found a 3×5cm cauliflower-like polyp at sigmoid colon . After biopsy, was finally diagnosed as intestinal cancer stage IV .
It turns out that those symptoms that have always been considered by Brother Wen as hemorrhoids are actually early calls for help from intestinal cancer! It is understandable that Brother Wen cannot accurately identify it, because anorectal diseases belong to digestive system , so many symptoms are very similar, which makes it difficult to detect some major diseases directly, which is easy to confuse with other mild symptoms.
Almost 90% of patients with bowel cancer usually misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids when they first show symptoms. It is hard to think that this is actually a disguise of bowel cancer, which makes patients easily fall into cognitive traps.
1. Intestinal cancer is very good at "disguising"
In my country, the incidence of intestinal cancer is increasing year by year and gradually becoming younger, which increases the chance of it being confused with other diseases. For example, intestinal cancer is often misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids, appendicitis and intestinal obstruction.
. Hemorrhoids
Intestinal cancer is most likely to disguise as hemorrhoids, thereby reducing the patient's vigilance. This is because hemorrhoids are an anorectal disease with a very high prevalence, and most importantly, intestinal cancer and hemorrhoids have the most similar symptom of : blood stool . Once the cancer in the body is formed, it is very likely to rub with the intestinal contents and cause inflammation or even ulceration and bleeding , and then excretes it out of the body along with the feces, which is the cause of bloody stools in the intestinal cancer.
and hemorrhoids is a kind of soft venous mass formed by dilation or flexion of the submucosa and anal canal venous plexus at the end of our rectal end.
The most important thing is that hemorrhoids can easily cause bloody stools. As long as we eat spicy and greasy diet and are accompanied by bad living habits, our feces will become dry and difficult to excrete from the body, causing venous mass to rupture and bloody stools.
Since the incidence of hemorrhoids is extremely high , even if it is really a precursor to intestinal cancer, we will first mistake hemorrhoids.
But the two are not undistinguishable, we must pay attention to observation in our daily life.
Because hemorrhoids are ruptured and bleeding are usually in the rectum, blood in the stool caused by hemorrhoids usually only attaches to the surface of the feces; while intestinal cancer bleeding is in the colon. When the feces are not formed, blood is mixed, which is often manifested as pus or blood in the feces.
. Appendicitis
Intestinal cancer may also use appendicitis to "deception" patients. When appendicitis develops chronic inflammation, the body will feel the hidden pain from the abdomen of .
Most of the abdominal pain in patients with intestinal cancer are caused by the stimulation of the intestinal mucosa by the cancer; or the intestinal cavity caused by the cancer, causing spastic pain. And as time goes by, the pain will also increase. This symptom of pain in the right lower abdomen of appendicitis coincides with the abdominal pain caused by bowel cancer.
Our human body The end of the colon There is also an immune organ under the of the , that is our appendix . It will also develop as the degree of inflammation develops, the pain will last longer and more severely, and finally spread to the entire abdominal cavity.
appendicitis Whether it is the location of the pain or the time of pain is very close to the abdominal pain caused by intestinal cancer, If the patient's tumor still happens to grow in the ileocecal , it may compress the appendix on the early stages of its development, which may cause inflammation of the appendix, making it difficult for to distinguish .
can be seen. The symptoms of appendix inflammation are closely related to abdominal pain in the bowel cancer, so bowel cancer can also be worn on the coat of appendicitis and get through the challenge.
. Enteritis and Dysentery
In addition to the symptoms of the above two diseases are similar to those of intestinal cancer, there are also some benign gastrointestinal diseases symptoms that can also lead to misdiagnosis by patients and doctors, such as enteritis and dysentery.
Enteritis and dysentery are caused by inflammation or edema in the mucosa of the intestine. The main symptoms of both of them are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever and diarrhea, and intestinal cancer will also cause nausea and vomiting due to intestinal obstruction or intestinal spasm; it develops in the later stage due to the absorption of toxins, and the body temperature will also increase due to infection. ; abdominal pain is one of the early symptoms of intestinal cancer.
When these symptoms occur, patients and doctors will first diagnose enteritis and dysentery based on these symptoms, and will not first think of it as early symptoms of intestinal cancer. Patients usually treat first according to inflammation and dysentery , which may achieve short-term improvement. When intestinal problems again , will treat dysentery not completely cured, so intestinal cancer can be hidden under the packaging of these two digestive tract diseases.
There are many cases like Brother Wen, because only 10% of patients with bowel cancer can be diagnosed within one month of symptoms. Intestinal cancer itself is mostly caused by inheritance, and is caused by acquired environmental factors, and is mostly found in the late stage. In this way, the patient's five-year survival rate of is very low. Even if he can survive, the patient's quality of life will be greatly reduced and it is very affected.
Then, if you can detect three abnormalities of defecation in advance, you may be able to detect cancer in time and save your body.
2. There are three manifestations of bowel cancer, which may be that the body is "calling for help"
) Fecal unformed
The earliest occurrence of bowel cancer patients is changes in bowel habits and fecal traits. Long-term fecal unformed or diarrhea and constipation alternate are one of the manifestations.
Although fecal failure does not form may not be intestinal cancer, we still need to be vigilant. Because during the development of the tumor, will affect the autonomic nerves of on the intestines of , resulting in intestinal dysfunction and digestive function , so the excreted feces will not form; in addition, diarrhea and constipation alternate are likely to occur in the middle and late stages of intestinal cancer, which is specifically manifested as the patient will experience a period of constipation problems after experiencing a period of diarrhea, which will repeat over time.
This symptom is likely to occur in intestinal obstruction period . At this time, the nerves in the intestinal tract are more sensitive are susceptible to stimulation. At the same time, the central nervous system will also receive information. issues the wrong command , causing intestinal to speed up peristalsis and cause diarrhea . But our nerves will also be exhausted, so after a period of time, intestinal peristalsis will weaken and slow down . At this time, the patient will be constipated or even have no intention of defecation, and this process will be repeated continuously. When the placeholding problem of intestinal obstruction becomes more and more serious, patients will also discharge many thin strips and sheep feces stools .
) Changes in the number of bowel cancer
After suffering from intestinal cancer, the number of bowel movements of will increase , which is also one of the early signals of intestinal cancer.
Generally speaking, tumors will stimulate the patient's intestines. The lower the cancer is, the closer it is to the anus , the more frequent the patient's defecation will be, and the number of defecations will increase. If it is rectal cancer, the patient will also have the problem of being urged and being severe and unable to defecate.
) Bloody stool
Whether it is hemorrhoids or other anorectal diseases, if bloody stool occurs, it is best to pay attention to it and do not lose the big picture because of small things. It is generally manifested as blood in the feces, and even pus and mucus .
stool gradually forms in the intestines, and as intestinal peristalsis continues to move downward. When the tumor is located, it may rub and squeeze with the tumor, and then tumors break , so when the feces are excreted, will be stained with blood ; if there are thick and mucus in the feces besides blood, it may be because infection occurs after the tumor ruptures, and the mucus secreted by the mucosa will cause the patient to discharge pus and blood stool .
Although the three fecal problems mentioned above are not specific, this is indeed a reminder to us in the early stages of intestinal cancer. If there are two or more, it is best to go to the hospital for a colonoscopy .
Because it takes 5 to 10 years for intestinal cancer to develop from the intestinal lesions to the final development of malignant tumors, . If at this stage, the patient can undergo a colonoscopy to screen out polyps that may be deemed and remove them, they will be safe and sound. If this best discovery period is missed, the body will have symptoms as time increases. In this way, it can not only rule out the possibility of having intestinal cancer, but also eliminate other gastrointestinal diseases and effectively remove the camouflage coat of intestinal cancer.
In addition to paying attention to our physical condition carefully, we also need to try to exercise more in our spare time to strengthen the metabolism of ; people will reduce the intake of some spicy and greasy foods when they enter middle age, quit smoking and drinking, and regular living habits can effectively prevent the arrival of intestinal cancer.
After being diagnosed with advanced colon cancer, Brother Wen was very sad and regretful. When he first developed this symptom, he was still stubborn and disobeyed advice and continued to delay going to see a doctor, which resulted in a major disaster. This tells us not to take it lightly. If we have a lucky mentality and regard them as other minor problems, it will lead to irreparable consequences and may follow in Brother Wen’s footsteps!
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