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A member asked:

Sometimes when i have to poop i get pelvic pain and i will have a strong urge to go i'm 20 is this colon cancer?

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Dr. Julien Fahed answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Signs of cancer: Colon cancer usually presents in people who are older than 50. It presents mainly with anemia (due to slow bleeding in the gi tract) or obstruction of the bowels (can't move your bowels at all). What you are describing is different.

Answered 9/7/2016

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Is there difference of amount of bleeding due to colon cancer vs something benign like hemorrhoids? Once in while ill get small blood spot when i poop

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Is the urge to poop while drinking hot caffeinated tea (sometimes I actually do go, other times just gas or very little comes out,) is this considered Tenesmus or sign of colon cancer?

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Feels like Im pooping glass when I poop. Sometimes I get a drop of red blood on the toilet paper. I recently had a cbc and all was good. Im 3 months postpartum. Ive been taking stool softeners for weeks and not working.could this be colon cancer?

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I'm kind of obsessing about colon cancer. So every now and then i catch myself putting pressure in my rectum analyzing if I feel anything abnormal.I feel like maybe stool is there but no urge to go though until hours later. Is this tenesmus?

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