Posted on 08/08/2017 5:02:40 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Adults in the United States are dying from colon and rectal cancers at an increasing rate about age 50, when they should just be beginning screenings, according to a new study from the American Cancer Society.
Since routine screening is generally not recommended for most adults under 50, the cancers found in younger adults are often in advanced stages and more deadly, said Dr. James Church, a colorectal surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio.
Church, who was not involved in the new study, said he has seen this trend in death rates up close. Last year, on separate occasions, Church saw two 36-year-olds with stage IV colon cancer, he said.
In both of those patients, who had no relation to each other, the cancer spread to their livers, making it so he couldn't operate. Both died, he said. "They both had young families, both little girls, and they lost their father in one case and their mother in the other, forever, because of this nasty disease when it's advanced," Church said.
"It makes a big impact on me, and it makes me keenly interested in trying to solve this issue," he said. "Everybody in colorectal surgical circles is seeing increased incidence of colon cancer in the young, defined as younger than 50."
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More “organic” foods leading to coliform infections in intestines, perhaps?
Could be soy.
Could be global warming.
My father died in 1998 of Colon Cancer..back then colonoscopies were considered “Invasive” and his doc advised him against it..instead he had a sigmo which only showed about 2 feet of the colon, his tumor was located much deeper than that and because they missed it, spread to his liver and was dead in a year. Anyone that experiences any changes in their bowel should get a colonoscopy no matter what their age
High carb diets.
Uh....cuz they don’t eat enough fruits and veggies?
Too much processed junk?
(now....where’s those cookies....?)
It couldn’t possibly be all the crap people have been eating?
More gay men?
Sorry about Dad. Still, 1998 wasn’t so long ago. They could at least have augmented the sigmoidoscopy with a fecal occult blood test.
Bush-43?
My colon was clenched during 8 years of obastard.
Processed food they’ve been fed all their lives
Obesity
More likely high carb diets.
You are pretty close, then add higher alcohol and meat consumption. Lack of veggies & fruits means not enough fiber in diet, which slows down movement through intestines, causing rotting food in gut.
It’s either climate change or legal pot.
Can’t be anything else.
Matt Damon...
I’m so sorry.
Sorry, but my thoughts, too. I suspect more men-men and men-women are indulging in anal sex. The rectum isn’t designed to accept an erect penis. It is constructed of delicate cells designed for secretion. The vagina is designed for the rigors of sex.....it is lined with cells that are tougher and made for protection. Obviously, not all colon and rectal cancers are because of this. But the colon cancer rate is higher in gay men than in straight men.
My impression is that young people aren’t eating as much meat as their parents or grandparents did.
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