It is an obligation for your employment to provide an annual medical checkup for employee in Japan.
Have you had a medical checkup already in this year and have you looked at your diagnostics result carefully?
Some of you might have received “+” as a result of occult blood test.
This result is not always true that you have serious health issue such as colorectal cancer; you might have hemorrhoids (some of patients have no subjective symptoms and it is very common) or other disease.
Some of you just ignore the result for years believing it is because of hemorrhoids.
But please aware that even if you have hemorrhoids, it doesn’t mean you have no other disease.
We cannot give you a clear answer why you got “+” until you have an endoscopy examination.
So please don’t underestimate the diagnostics result and have a detailed examination if there is any request from the doctor.
Akiko