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I had a sigmoidoscopy. and was clear but still having mucus and blood and diareah and cramps. do i have bowel cancer? it is worse around period time.
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Possibly: The symptoms of blood and diarrhea can at time be associated with a bowel lesion. Sigmoidoscopy is used to examine the distal colon just above the rectum for about 20cm. To be sure the bowel is free of pathology a colonoscopy should be performed to identify and biopsy and pathology that might be defined by this procedure.
Answered 10/1/2014
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