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Symptoms of bowel cancer. Symptoms of bowel cancer can include a change in your normal bowel habit or blood in your poo. These can also be symptoms for other conditions, but it’s important to see your doctor. Bowel cancer can start in the large bowel (colon cancer) or back passage (rectal cancer). It is also called colorectal cancer.
Symptoms of advanced bowel cancer. Advanced bowel cancer is cancer that started in either the back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon) and has spread to another part of the body. The symptoms of advanced bowel cancer can be similar to bowel cancer that hasn't spread. Other symptoms depend on which part of the body the cancer has spread to.
cancer in the abdominal area (such as ovarian, bowel or stomach cancer) presses on the bowel; other cancers (such as lung or breast cancer) spread to the abdomen and press on the bowel; cancer grows into the nerve supply of the bowel and damages it - this can stop the muscles working; a solid mass of indigestible material collects in the bowel
Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain & Ireland (ACPGBI): Guidelines for the management of cancer of the colon, rectum and anus (2017) – diagnosis, investigations and screening C Cunnigham and others Colorectal disease, 2017. Volume 19, Pages 1-97. Comprehensive Information For Ostomates Colostomy UK. Accessed March 2022
Bowel cancer means cancer that starts in the large bowel (colon) and the back passage (rectum). It is also known as colorectal cancer. Your treatment depends on where the cancer starts in your bowel. The bowel is split into 2 parts - the small bowel and the large bowel. The large bowel includes the colon, the rectum and the bowel opening (anus).
Advanced bowel cancer is cancer that has spread from the back passage (rectum) and large intestines (colon) to other parts of the body, such as the liver. Treatment for advanced bowel cancer can keep it under control, relieve symptoms and give you a good quality of life.
Treatment for bowel (colon) cancer. Bowel cancer can start in the large bowel (colon cancer) or back passage (rectal cancer). It is also called colorectal cancer. This section is about treatment for colon cancer that hasn't spread to another part of the body.
Cancer of the large bowel. Waste left from digested food passes from the small bowel to the colon, where fluid and foods are absorbed. The waste then goes through to the rectum (back passage) and then through the anus to be passed out of the body. Also called the large intestine or the bowel.
Advanced bowel (colorectal) cancer is cancer that started in either the back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon) and has spread to another part of the body. The treatment depends on a number of factors including where the cancer is in your body. Treatment can include chemotherapy, surgery, targeted cancer drugs, immunotherapy and radiotherapy.
American Cancer Society Colorectal Cancer Survivorship Care Guidelines K El-Shami and others CA Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2015. Volume 65, Issue 6, Pages 428-55. A descriptive qualitative study to assess patient experiences following stoma reversal after rectal cancer surgery M Reinwalds and others Ostomy wound management, 2017.