“Not all individuals interpret their initial symptoms as serious and may attribute this to normal variation, ageing, lifestyle, and other comorbidities.”
Changes in bowel habits may include more frequent or looser stools, and some researchers believe regularly alternating between constipation and diarrhoea could be the most telling sign of all.
“However, these symptoms are very common and most people with them do not have bowel cancer,” notes NHS Inform.
This shouldn’t deter anyone from getting unusual bowel changes investigated by a healthcare progressional, however, as it is best to rule out the possibility of cancer.
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