Gastrointestinal Symptoms

Diarrhoea and constipation

• Abdominal pain or discomfort

• Abdominal bloating

• Faecal urgency, incontinence and sense of incomplete emptying

• Difficult swallowing (dysphagia) or painful swallowing (odynophagia)

• Gastrointestinal bleeding

  • Vomiting blood or coffee-ground material (haematemesis)

  • Black, tarry stools (melaena)

  • Rectal bleeding

• Iron deficiency and/or anaemia, positive bowel cancer screening test (faecal occult blood test) or abnormal imaging of the digestive tract

• Family history of bowel cancer or polyposis syndrome