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# Abdominal pain — 44 percent
 
# Abdominal pain — 44 percent
 
# Change in bowel habit — 43 percent
 
# Change in bowel habit — 43 percent
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# Hematochezia or melena — 40 percent
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# Bleeding from the rectum — 40 percent
 
# Weakness — 20 percent
 
# Weakness — 20 percent
 
# Anemia without other gastrointestinal symptoms — 11 percent
 
# Anemia without other gastrointestinal symptoms — 11 percent
 
# Weight loss — 6 percent
 
# Weight loss — 6 percent
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Often, the only signs are blood detected in the stool by your doctor or a low blood count discovered on routine laboratory testing.
    
==Treatment & Prognosis==
 
==Treatment & Prognosis==
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