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Can bowel cancer symptoms come and go?

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Yes, bleeding: Cramps, pain is intermittent at first. But these are advanced symptoms. For early diagnosis of colon cancer, you need to have colonoscopy.

Dr Ali and another doctor agreed

Answered 11/14/2019

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