I'll be thinking of you @diane22 (I'm not religious). I feel for you. I understand what you are going through.
I'm 58, turning 59 next month. I had seen some blood in my stool occasionally in the summer of 2022. I visited a colorectal surgeon who touched a polyp when examining me, then had a colonoscopy that revealed a benign polyp and a pre-cancerous polyp (the one she had touched). Almost two months later, I had a transanal resection of said polyp, which had grown to almost twice its colonoscopy size. The biopsy result arrived the day after Christmas and revealed positive margins. All the doctors reassured me that even though it was a cancer diagnosis, it was being caught at the earliest stage possible, because only the upper layer of the wall of the rectum was affected. So, the prognosis was excellent. I had chemo-radiotherapy and the check-ups with CAT scans and MRIs say everything's fine.

Now, the panorama is a bit different because a new colonoscopy in November revealed a resurgence of the polyp or a new polyp in the almost the same place (there is no way to know which it is). Plus I have a rare recto-vaginal fistula due to the radiotherapy. Hence the decision to undergo a rectum resection.

I truly hope that if indeed it is cancer that it will have be found in good time and you'll have a good prognosis. Sending a hug.