Is colorectal cancer associated with altered bowel habits in young patients?
ANZ Journal of Surgery2020Vol. 91(5), pp. 943–946
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Ashray Rajagopalan, Ellathios Antoniou, Marina Morkos, Ellen Rajagopalan, Asiri Arachchi, Hanumant Chouhan, Thang Chien Nguyen, William Teoh
Abstract
Constipation was associated with left-sided colonic cancers, while right-sided colonic cancers were less likely to present with either constipation or diarrhoea. Our findings reinforce the need for clinicians to consider colorectal cancer as a differential diagnosis in young patients with altered bowel habits, or in patients with fatigue in the absence of specific bowel symptoms. Further prospective research is needed to further define bowel habits in this cohort.
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