Sun Health Explainer: Bowel Cancer
Pencil poos could be a sign of bowel cancer, experts warn. The Bristol Stool Scale shows seven other stool shapes and what they might meansometimes come into clinics saying they’ve noticed a change to their normal toilet routine, according to Dr Michael Cecchini, of Yale University.: “Stools are much thinner, or they’re pencil in thickness and size, which is a description that some patients with colorectal cancer will have.
Needing to poo more or less than usual, having blood in your poo, bleeding from your bottom and needing to more often, even after just going, are also signs.Narrow poos are a symptom of the disease, but they do not always indicate someone is suffering from it. Dr Cecchini said: “It’s important to catch cancer early through screening or alerting to some of ... these symptoms so that we diagnose cancer at an earlier stage, where it’s more treatable and hopefully curable.”According to the Bristol Stool Scale, your number two will fit into one of several categories.Sausage-like poos that are soft and easy to pass are what experts call "the gold standard of poop".
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