Radwah Oda was diagnosed with colon cancer at 30. She shares five symptoms she dismissed, including narrow stools, blood in the stool, pain and fatigue.

It’s where the body stores stools until you have a bowel movement ... your surgeon will try to cut out any tissue affected by cancer without removing the anal sphincter muscle, which controls ...

Advocate for yourself.” For Oda, one of the first warning signs was a subtle but troubling change in her bowel movements. Her stool suddenly became thin and pencil-like every time she used the ...

A single mum diagnosed with stage four colon cancer has warned others about the symptoms she initially ignored. Radwah Oda ...

“It is more than just [seeing] a little bit of pink tinge on the toilet tissue,” she ... Blood in the stool can also indicate ...

Along with those, Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis may make you lose weight without trying, and make your stool look bloody or black. You could also see blood in the toilet or on tissue if you ...

In the latest episode of Hadassah On Call, Dr. David Hakimian, a senior gastroenterologist at the Hadassah Medical ...

Resection is another name for any operation that removes tissue or part of an organ. Bowel resection, also called partial colectomy ... This creates an opening, called a stoma, on the outside of the ...

Stage 2 bowel (colon and rectal) cancer has spread into the outer wall of the bowel or into tissue or organs next to the bowel. It has not spread to the lymph nodes or distant parts of the body. Stage ...