Colon Cancer: Symptoms, Screening, and Prevention

Stomach ache, gas, constipation, or blood in stool are common problems for many of us. Especially if there is blood in the stool, many people consider it a problem of piles (hemorrhoids) and self-medicate or live with it for a long time without treatment. But it is not always appropriate to consider such symptoms normal. Sometimes these symptoms can also be signs of colon or rectal cancer.

More importantly, some abnormal growths (polyps) that can turn into colon cancer or cancer may not show any symptoms initially. Therefore, it is not only about getting tested after symptoms appear, but screening tests done even before symptoms appear in necessary individuals also play an important role in early detection and prevention of the disease.