How much do you know about colon cancer? A single mother has come forward and spoken about her battle with stage four colon cancer in an effort to raise awareness around the warning signs she dismissed. A mother of one, Radwah Oda of Texas, has been juggling raising her son, holding down an office job, and battling her cancer.

She went viral on TikTok when she posted a video about her journey that has garnered over 2.3 million views, sharing the symptoms she overlooked. She has urged the public to take their health more seriously and not ignore these most commonly dismissed symptoms, which are major red flags.

Stool Changes

Radwah began by describing one of her first warning signs of colon cancer. Her bowel habits had changed. She noticed how her stool began to become more pencil-shaped and initially dismissed this, assuming it was just mild constipation.

Another symptom of colon cancer
She noted that her stool seemed to contain small amounts of blood and attributed this to hemorrhoids. Apparently, this is commonly overlooked. She also mentioned that she never felt like her bowels were completely empty after going to the bathroom. “Every time I used the bathroom, I felt like I still needed to go. I kept pushing and pushing, but nothing would come out,” she described.

Unexplained pain