Diseases

General (Small Intestine Cancer)

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Diet and health history can affect the risk of developing small intestine cancer. Signs and symptoms of smallintestine cancer include unexplained weight loss and abdominal pain. Tests that examine the small intestineare used to detect (find), diagnose, and stage smallintestine cancer.

SYMPTOMS

Abdominal pain, unexplained weight loss, weakness or fatigue (sometimes a result of anemia), bloody or tarry stools (from bleeding tumors), a noticeable lump in the abdomen.

CAUSES

Normally, body cells follow an orderly process of growth, division, and death. Cancer Happens when cells grow and divide uncontrollably, without dying. Most colon cancer originates from noncancerous, or benign, tumors called adenomatous polyps that form on the inner walls of the largeintestine.