Colon polyps blood in stool

Hello, I'm new here. I am a 30 year old female.
I have had some blood in my stool and dull abdominal pain and fatigue. I got a doctors appointment yesterday where the nurse done an examination. She said she can feel a lump which could be a polyp she said it could of been a loose piece of stool but it didn't move when she tried to. I have to have my bloods done, stool samples / fit test and a colonoscopy. 
My question is, if this is a polyp and if it is bleeding does this have a high chance in being cancerous? I'm going off my nerves waiting. 

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  • Hi

    Sorry you are going through all this worry.

    It's good they are doing all the tests to rule out the bad stuff.

    Polyps can bleed. If not removed they can sometimes become cancerous in the future.

    The fit test is very good at detecting blood in the sample, so if you have a bleeding polyp, piles or a tear at the time of the test, it will come back positive but doesn't have to mean bad news.

    Your age also, not impossible for a 30 year old to get bowel cancer but wery rare.

    Have you had your colonoscopy yet? If they come across any small polyps, they painlessly remove them at the same time.

    Any questions fire away I've been there. xxx

  • Thank you so much, she said there were no piles anal tears that she could see/feel just the possible polyp. I'm going to take my stool sample and fit test to the surgery in the morning- not sure how long results from these take to come back? I think I'm more worried as after she had done an examination that's when she told me I needed to do the tests go for a colonoscopy and have blood tests, it just seemed to move so fast from before she done the examination if that makes sense. Hopefully the colonoscopy won't be too much of a wait even though I've read on here they aren't very pleasant.

    thank you xxx

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  • Thank you so much, she said there were no piles anal tears that she could see/feel just the possible polyp. I'm going to take my stool sample and fit test to the surgery in the morning- not sure how long results from these take to come back? I think I'm more worried as after she had done an examination that's when she told me I needed to do the tests go for a colonoscopy and have blood tests, it just seemed to move so fast from before she done the examination if that makes sense. Hopefully the colonoscopy won't be too much of a wait even though I've read on here they aren't very pleasant.

    thank you xxx

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