Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 2 Location: North Carolina
Is Cancer Hereditary? I Found Blood In My Stool. Posted: 12-12-03 23:39pm
For the past week or so, i've had bad
diarrhea. My stool has been coming out
light brown, and pale...Until even
today.
Over the past two days my stool has begun
to harden again, but at the expense of
having extreme flatulence.
I figured that I was just getting over
something bad I had eaten, until I wiped
myself, and found blood.
I wasn't sure if it could be colon cancer
since my stool isn't black, or dark
colored. But my uncle has colon cancer,
my grandfather (on my dads side) had
cancer of the pancreas and my grandmother
(on my mothers side) had lukemia.
Which makes me ask, does it pass down
through family genes? And should I be
worried about the blood I found when I
wiped?
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bluejeanangel
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 32 Location: Ohio
Posted: 03-28-04 11:40am
Yes,
it is familial,
there are many types of colon cancer, in
my case I 1st had polyps, and they to are
familial
