Intestinal Cancer
Intestinal cancer is a rare disease with uncommon occurrence, and it is different from colon and rectal cancer, or the large intestine. Tumors affecting the small intestines are divided into benign tumors and malignant tumors. It is necessary to know some information about benign tumors that affect the small intestines, which may turn into intestinal cancer.
Types of Intestinal Tumors
- Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome: Pigmentations appear in specific areas of the body in response to this syndrome, in the lips, face, and mucous membrane inside the mouth. This syndrome may also turn into intestinal cancer, but it occurs outside the digestive tract.
- Adipose Tumors: These are benign tumors and fatty accumulations that may obstruct the intestines. Microscopic examination reveals that they are accumulations of fatty tissue, and their growth may increase to the extent of feeling abdominal pain.
- Vascular Tumors: There are several types of these tumors. They cause bleeding and anemia, and symptoms also include intestinal perforation or hematoma in the intestinal wall. Capsule endoscopy successfully diagnoses this type of tumors.
- Obstructive Tumors: These tumors are serious and symptomatic, occurring in all areas of the small intestines. They cause ulceration, bleeding, and perforation in the intestinal wall, and the larger these tumors grow, the greater the chance of obstruction. Sometimes, these tumors turn into this malignant disease, with difficulty distinguishing between benign obstructive tumors and malignant obstructive tumors.
- Glandular Tumors: These tumors have more than one pattern and cause intestinal obstruction or bleeding. These tumors can also turn into intestinal cancer.
- Excessive Fibrous Tissue: They occur in the intestines without symptoms, can be excised, do not turn into intestinal cancer, and are more than one type of growth in the lining of the intestines. These benign tumors may also occur in the duodenum (the upper part of the small intestines).
What are the Symptoms of Small Intestinal Cancer?
There are several symptoms experienced by patients. Symptoms of small intestinal cancer may also resemble some symptoms of other cancers. Therefore, immediate consultation with a specialist doctor helps in the healing process. The symptoms include the following:
- Patients with this disease have a mass in the abdomen.
- Patients feel nausea and experience vomiting.
- Abdominal pain.
- Patients suffer from jaundice (yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes).
- Patients with this disease find red or black blood in the stool.
- Patients suffer from skin redness.
- Watery diarrhea is a symptom of small intestinal cancer.
- There is a feeling of unusual or unusual fatigue and exhaustion.
What are the Types of Intestinal Cancer?
There are four types, as follows:
- Lymph Node Cancer.
- Neuroendocrine Tumor. This also includes carcinoid tumor and rectal tumor.
- Glandular Cancer.
- Sarcoma. This also includes tumors of the digestive system tissues.
