If I ask this question to people on the street, I think most of them will reply me as “I don’t know” including you.
Don’t worry it’s very normal. It is because you don’t have any apparatus to checking your intestine other than medical facilities.
Colorectal cancer often begins as a polyp and increase the risk with growth.
Some polyps take a long time to change into cancer.
I can say that finding and removing polyps at early stage is one of a prevention to become colorectal cancer.
The symptom of colorectal polyps is bloody bowel discharge (bleeding from anus), but there are many people who have no symptoms.
If you don’t know whether you have colorectal polyps or not at this moment, please have a colonoscopy examination, especially if you are over 50’s .
We are also available for the examination.
[by Akiko]