Don't mistake colon cancer for Crohn's

Beyond the mountains there are greener mountains, and beyond the buildings there are buildings. The same goes for diseases. Don't be blinded by the illness in front of you, as it will only block your view of the real culprit.

This story started 5 years ago. 5 years ago, Mr. Jia, who lived in Hangzhou, was in his prime. He often felt a pain in his lower right abdomen as if a knife was twisting it. The pain lasted for more than a week and there was no sign of improvement. When it hurt, his stomach would gurgle. When his wife saw the pain, she asked if he had chronic appendicitis and asked if he should get a saline drip. Mr. Jia went to a small clinic to tell the doctor about the situation. The doctor didn't say anything and just gave him two days of anti-inflammatory injections. But the pain was really relieved after the saline drip.

The matter was dropped. But not long after, the problem recurred, and this time, in addition to the stomachache, he also had diarrhea. The diarrhea was not the only problem. The scary thing was the redness, swelling and pain around the anus, and no one knew what had happened. Mr. Jia couldn't wait any longer and rushed to the hospital for a check-up. After seeing the situation, he had blood tests, barium meals, and colonoscopies done one by one. The result was a disease he had never heard of - Crohn's disease. If the real culprit is found, he can be treated, but the doctor also said that this disease is prone to recurrence and is generally difficult to cure. In this way, Mr. Jia's Crohn's disease has been lingering without further development or becoming serious.

Four or five years passed like this, and in March this year, he suddenly had abdominal pain again, but this time the pain was different, like there was gas in his stomach, and he felt like he would vomit if he ate anything, and he felt like he couldn't eat anything. Lao Jia had no choice but to go to the hospital again.

When the doctor heard that Lao Jia had Crohn's disease, he initially diagnosed it as Crohn's disease causing intestinal obstruction. After taking a picture, it was indeed intestinal obstruction, but it didn't seem to be entirely true. In the messy intestine, there seemed to be a tumor that looked suspicious.

In order to avoid missing the diagnosis, the doctor recommended a colonoscopy after the obstruction was resolved. This time, three tissue biopsies were taken during the colonoscopy. As expected, it was not Crohn's disease, but colon cancer.

The doctor said that Mr. Jia's colon cancer is very easy to miss. Fortunately, he took a film. If you don't look carefully, you will think it is intestinal obstruction caused by Crohn's disease. Mr. Jia's abdominal pain and diarrhea symptoms have not been cured for a long time and are generally considered to be Crohn's disease. In fact, long-term inflammatory response leads to the hidden occurrence of colon cancer, and no one is alert. Now that he has just finished the operation, Mr. Jia feels like he has been reborn. He is really lucky to have met a responsible and good doctor.