Bowel cancer symptoms: Rare but painful sign in your back could signal cancer

The main symptoms of bowel cancer are:

• Bleeding from your bottom and/or blood in your poo
• A persistent and unexplained change in bowel habit
• Unexplained weight loss
• Extreme tiredness for no obvious reason
• A pain or lump in your tummy
• If you have these symptoms, don’t panic too much.

Bowel Cancer UK explained that most people with the above symptoms don’t have bowel cancer and could have a totally different and less scary health condition or problem such as piles, IBS, Crohn’s disease, anal fissures, constipation or diarrhoea.