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, the stools (bowel motions) – the blood may be bright red or dark in colour
a change in your normal bowel... your bowel properly after a bowel motion.
Sometimes tiredness (fatigue) is a symptom of a bowel cancer...
, in your bowel motions (faeces). Occult blood means ‘hidden blood’. Bowel cancers and polyps can sometimes bleed, which is why screening looks for blood in your bowel motions.
People who have a positive faecal occult blood test (have...
to be passed from the body through the anus as a bowel motion (stool). Close to the bowel are lymph nodes...
The bowel is part of our digestive system. It is divided into two parts, the small bowel...
to take a sample of your stool (bowel motion) to the surgery so that it can be tested for blood.
If your GP thinks... into the bowel. This makes you feel that you want to pass a bowel motion, but the feeling will gradually go away... 
was associated with an increased risk of cancer. Individuals having 1-2 bowel motions a day (compared... whether constipation and less frequent bowel motions protect against colon cancer, only that these things...
. They may include any of the following:
blood in the stools (bowel motion)
dark/black stools
vague, crampy... over the stoma to collect the bowel motions. Usually the ileostomy will be temporary and a further operation...
may be permanently affected by the radiotherapy. If this happens, the increased bowel motions and diarrhoea... to remove
if some cancer cells may be left behind
if the cancer had spread through the bowel wall or...
and the opening of the bowel is known as a stoma. A bag is worn over the stoma to collect the stool (bowel motions... out by a surgeon who specialises in bowel surgery.
The operation
Your doctor will discuss...
change in bowel habits towards looser or more frequent bowel motions
Bloating, swelling, pain or...
9 out of 10 bowel cancers could be treated successfully if caught at an early stage...
swelled up again after the nasal gastric tube was removed, and it took a week for me to even have a bowel motion. This was due to intravenous antibiotics. My wound spontaneously opened up, and was oozing. Yuck... 
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