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I've been eating alot of red food pepporoni,tom juice tomatoes chili and little specs of red on my stool worry its cancer 41 no fam history?
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Undigested food: What you described is consistent with undigested particles of food, especially tomato skins, in the stool. When you turn 50 get a screening colonoscopy.
Answered 4/1/2015
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