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  2. Mucus in Stool: What’s Normal and What’s Not

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    Mucus in stool can sometimes be a symptom of colon cancer, says Dr. Shanker-Patel. However, mucus in stool is just one of a number of symptoms that might be observed in cases of colon cancer.

  3. Have Blood In Your Stool? Here’s What It Could Mean

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    Colon cancers can cause bleeding and a loss of red blood cells, which causes anemia. Anemia is usually picked up during routine blood work. The best way to get ahead of a colon cancer diagnosis is ...

  4. Rectal discharge - Wikipedia

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    An example of this could be the so-called "red currant jelly" stools in intussusception. This appearance refers to the mixture of sloughed mucosa, mucus, and blood. [12] Note: "mucus" is a noun, used to name the substance itself, and "mucous" is an adjective, used to describe a discharge. "Mucoid" is also an adjective and means mucus-like.

  5. What does the color of your mucus mean?

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    Yellowish mucus typically means that your white blood cells are "fighting off an illness or infection," says Nasseri. "Most commonly this is linked to the common cold and will likely clear on its own.

  6. Blood in stool - Wikipedia

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    Blood in stool looks different depending on how early it enters the digestive tract—and thus how much digestive action it has been exposed to—and how much there is. The term can refer either to melena, with a black appearance, typically originating from upper gastrointestinal bleeding; or to hematochezia, with a red color, typically originating from lower gastrointestinal bleeding. [6]

  7. Stool test - Wikipedia

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    Cancers and precancerous lesions that are ulcerated or rubbed by passing stool also may shed blood into the stool, which can be identified by a hemoglobin assay. [ 4 ] The American Cancer Society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended colorectal cancer screening with a fecal immunochemical test every year, or a multi-target ...

  8. Leukocytosis - Wikipedia

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    Leukocytosis is a condition in which the white cell count is above the normal range in the blood. [1] [2] It is frequently a sign of an inflammatory response, [3] most commonly the result of infection, but may also occur following certain parasitic infections or bone tumors as well as leukemia.

  9. Colorectal cancer - Wikipedia

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    The signs and symptoms of colorectal cancer depend on the location of the tumor in the bowel, and whether it has spread elsewhere in the body ().The classic warning signs include: worsening constipation, blood in the stool, decrease in stool caliber (thickness), loss of appetite, loss of weight, and nausea or vomiting in someone over 50 years old. [15]