There is a type of cancer that is particularly easy to be misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids. This is cancer, which is rectal cancer. The rectum is located at the bottom of the digestive tract, surrounded by internal and external sphincters.

There is a type of cancer, which is particularly easy to be misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids . This is cancer, which is rectal cancer.

The rectum is located at the bottom of the digestive tract, surrounded by internal and external sphincters. The internal anal sphincter is made by thickening the smooth muscles around the rectal wall, which can assist in defecation when contracted. The external anal sphincter is an circumferential muscle bundle located around the internal anal sphincter. It is skeletal muscle , which can sphincter the anus at will.

It can be seen from this that the role of the rectum is crucial for the human body.

However, because it is very close to the anus, the symptoms caused by rectal cancer are often mistakenly caused by hemorrhoids. Not long ago, the outpatient clinic received such a patient. Mr. Deng, 56, has been suffering from blood stool for a full half year, but he has always mistakenly thought it was hemorrhoids. Why do he think of hemorrhoids first when he has blood stool? This is because the incidence of hemorrhoids is very high. Nine out of ten men and ten women and ten out of ten women and mouth-to-mouth hemorrhoids have always been passed down by the people. Therefore, the concept of hemorrhoids has actually been deeply rooted in people's hearts. What are the most common symptoms of hemorrhoids? Of course it is bloody stool, so if you feel bloody stool, you will think of hemorrhoids first.

However, rectal cancer can also cause bloody stools, which is caused by tumor rupture. Since the rectum is the part of defecation, the stool gathers here. The rough stool can easily cut the blood vessels and cause bloody stools.

Once rectal cancer is misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids, the consequences will be unimaginable, because rectal cancer and hemorrhoids are two completely different diseases, and the prognosis is also completely different.

As a doctor, I would like to remind everyone that if you want to misunderstand rectal cancer as hemorrhoids, the following five symptoms will be discovered in time.

First, bloody stool, no matter if you have blood dripping after the stool or if the stool is mixed with blood, no matter whether the blood volume is more or less, what you should rule out most is not hemorrhoids, but rectal cancer.

Second, the bowel habits change, the rectum controls the body's bowel movements. Think about it, when a lump in the rectum, it will inevitably cause the bowel habits to change, and the most prominent manifestation is that the bowel movements become irregular.

Third, the stool traits change. When a lump grows in the rectum, the intestinal cavity will become narrower. The stool is like a squeezed toothpaste, and the shape will also change. The most prominent manifestation is the stool becoming thinner.

Fourth, anal swelling, many patients with rectal cancer have this feeling, the feeling of incomplete bowel movements and anal swelling is particularly uncomfortable, but the anal swelling is more likely to be misdiagnosed as hemorrhoids.

Fifth, abdominal pain and weight loss, rectal cancer is not painful at the beginning. As time goes by, rectal cancer continues to progress and cancer cells undergo extensive metastasis, which will cause abdominal pain and weight loss.