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Summary of your symptoms

Date checker completed: Sunday 8th September 2024

You are over 50 years old and have a change in bowel habit to going more often to pass looser stools, abdominal pain without loss of appetite and or weight and no rectal bleeding.

Additional information if you see your GP

Patients over 60 years old who have a persistent and unremitting change in bowel habit to going more often to pass looser stools for more than 6 weeks merit referral to the 2-week clinic.
Patients below 60 yrs old may be advised to have a further period of treat watch and wait but if this fails they are likely to be referred to a routine clinic for further investigations and advice on management of their symptoms.

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