{"id":602827,"date":"2026-05-25T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602827\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T10:41:14","slug":"colon-cancer-in-young-4-early-warning-signs-you-should-not-ignore-according-to-a-harvard-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/602827\/","title":{"rendered":"Colon cancer in young: 4 early warning signs you should not ignore, according to a Harvard doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth warning sign is arguably the most important and most ignored, because it can be vague. Any change in your bowel habits can be a red flag for colon cancer. This could be new diarrhoea, constipation, or any shift in your established pattern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe suddenly your poo went from being really thick to really, really thin,\u201d the doctor said. \u201cThere have been some really high-profile cases of celebrities who have said the only sign I had was that fourth one, just that something changed in the pattern. And I thought it was my coffee or something else, but then I changed the coffee, and it didn\u2019t go away. If you\u2019re worried, if something\u2019s off, don\u2019t wait. Don\u2019t brush it aside as normal. Do not be embarrassed by it. Just run it by your doctor,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fourth warning sign is arguably the most important and most ignored, because it can be vague. Any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[847,25648,205655,205656,205657,205654,80615,59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-602827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-cancer","tag-colon-cancer","tag-colon-cancer-in-young","tag-colon-cancer-in-youngsters","tag-colon-cancer-signs-and-symptoms","tag-colon-cancer-symptom","tag-colon-cancer-symptoms","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}