h. pylori possible colorectal cancer

Hi, I understand the surprise when symptoms shift from one spectrum to another. H pylori is not associated with colorectal cancer. There are cancers associated with it, they would be stomach cancers. If you had an endoscopy procedure done and I am suspecting you had, these tumors would be visible. The elimination of H pylori at the current time would of course lower your risk for subsequent development of cancer. The best way to see if you do have an ulcer is to check your endoscopy report. If you had a breath test instead of an endoscopy.Aside from ulcers, inflammation/swelling of the stomach lining is caused by H pylori, so you do not necessarily have an ulcer present. The current bowel movements may be due to a couple of factors. The first is that antibiotics can disrupt the normal growth of friendly microorganisms, and hence some may be favored to over grow more than others – the consequences would be diarrhea (this is actually defined as a change in frequency or character of stool). The second is that the reduction in stomach acid (which is again part of the therapy) may give you a bloated feeling. A bloated stomach would trigger signals that new food has entered, and a need to defecate would be initiated. The colonoscopy is the best test to screen for colon cancer. There is a robust pattern of disease starting as benign growths gradually progressing to malignancy over a course of ten years. Thus it is unlikely to get colon cancer all of the sudden. Stay positive.