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A member asked:

Had sigmoidoscopy in june. it showed have haemaroids. pellet stools with lots of bloody mucus. bowel cancer? i'm 38. dad had polyps.

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Not necessarily: The blood in your stool is probably from the hemorrhoids. you may like to get a screening endoscopy to check for polyps and get biopsies from large or suspicious ones if you have any. Biopsies are to be examined by a pathologist who would determine if there is malignant growth.

Answered 12/12/2014

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