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What are the chances this is colon cancer? loose bloody stool. 25 year old male with history of ibd. seeing a gi doc soon.

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Loose stool. : At your age, unless you have a strong family history of colon cancer, it would be very unlikely that you have colon cancer. But given your history of IBD and your current symptoms, a colonoscopy would be in order.

Answered 9/22/2017

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