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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I’d suspect that diets have changed, negatively, far more than human genes, so I’d suspect the former as the cause, not the latter.
Known risk factors for colon cancer should be examined to see if any have changed across the population in some correlation with the occurrence of more cases of early onset colon cancer. Some might have a big time lag before cancer develops.
Getting fatter, eating less vegetables or fiber, or having a bad balance of bacteria in the gut (such as after a course of antibiotics), should all be studied for a correlation over time. There might also have been a new food additive that caused cancer, or altered the gut biome to result in cancer as a secondary effect.
Obamacare.
The cause of rising colon cancer is global warming. If you disagree you’re a racist and worse than Hitler!
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you should go ahead and check out a book on the history of agriculture. You will find that people have been growing and eating grains and vegetables for much longer than 200 years. While you are at it look at the use of grains by ancient cultures. This anti-carb lunacy is causing many people to make very bad dietary choices and it has been going on long enough in the demographic we are discussing to cause all sorts of intestinal problems from irritable bowel syndrome to cancer.
>>This anti-carb lunacy is causing many people to make very bad dietary choices and it has been going on long enough in the demographic we are discussing to cause all sorts of intestinal problems from irritable bowel syndrome to cancer.
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This is clearly FALSE.
Irritable bowel typically disappears with a low carb diet. It did for me.
Both my husband and my blood work was awful before going low carb. They were ready to put him on a statin. He said, “Give me 3 months.”
It was more like 6 months later we had new blood work.
Both of our blood panels were PERFECT. The doc said “whatever you are doing, keep doing it”.
Blood sugars normalized, excess weight dropped, energy ret’d, arthritis pain disappeared.
Years later we did the old slide back to diet habits formed in our youth. Voila, all the above-listed symptoms ret’d.
It may not work for you, but it sure as hell worked for us, and EVERYONE in our circle of family and friends who accurately adhered to it.
Our infant mortality rates compared to the rest of the developex world are awful. I just checked wiki and our under-5 mortality is one of the worst in the world?
Anyone who has traveled internationally and observed the children in other cultures will note the rather stark difference in the health of their children relative to ours. It is not common to see a lot of fat kids in other cultures, and it is unusual to see children in other countries wearing glasses at age 4, for example. Our children are on more medications for chronic problems which would be easily resolved by eating a proper human diet (ie. not the standard food pyramid). So what I have observed here vs overseas is confirmed by statistics. We’re never going to fix that problem until we admit that our children are way over-fed/over-sugared, over medicated, and truly under-nourished. That would require setting aside the pride and arrogance that we have in believing that the trash we shovel into our mouths isn’t related to the 50” waistlines I see everywhere. We have an exceptional Constitution and exceptional concepts of freedom/liberty, but very un-exceptional health concepts in this country. Actually compared to other countries, even ones in the third world, we are dumb-a$$es when it comes to food, diet and general health.
By the way, some of these third world cultures experience great longevity, but they are quiet about it. I have a employee from Africa whose grandmother lived to 120. Other relatives: high 90’s and 100’s.
As far as the fatness of American children, I agree. Low exercise and high carb diets are rampant. Why parents are constantly giving their children snacks, I don't know.
It's easy to believe an anecdote about persons from Africa who live to 100+, because there are outliers in any population. It doesn't say anything about the rest of the population.
Nope, read the article. Colorectal cancer is up only among whites, and actually is slightly down among blacks. Are we to believe blacks eat fewer carbs than whites?
No, I suspect it's something behavioral...like more white men going homo because it's "cool" these days. I'm not saying there aren't black homos, too...but from what I've seen over the years, faggotism is a helluva lot less prevalent among black men than white men.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Agree. But the ‘wear and tear’ on the colon above the rectum is a risk factor for colon cancer in gays, too.
What is keeping me out of the doctor’s office at age 77 is walking at a good pace 25-40 minutes 5 times a week .
They dont only use their genitalia to go into the rectum..
Ya reap what ya sow....
sadly...
true...who knows what other viruses...fungi....bacteria...prions...toxins are being put up there...could be a combination of repeat trauma...foreign bodies...infectious agents...obesity...diet...endocrine blockers..etc involved
I am glad that you have found a diet that works for you... I assume with the help of a medical professional. Obviously, it is possible to make good dietary choices even when limiting your intake of foods that are very beneficial to other people. And there are many people who have a problem with dietary roughage with conditions such as diverticulitis. There are also those who have difficulty with gluten. However vegetables, fruits, and whole grains have very beneficial effects for the majority of people, especially when combined with healthy sources of protein.
my first ever colonoscopy was at age 67, and everything was good, no polyps etc. It was painless but drinking that liquid to clean out the bowel was simply dreadful. Now it is almost 10 years later, so better schedule another.
I was borderline diabetic type II 5 years back. Then I stumbled onto 16 hour fast everyday. OK so I cheat a bit on weekends. But my sugar is normal, A1C is normal and even my blood pressure is good. I eat all food groups, with lots of carbs, and eat the same amount as I did before, except all calorie intake is compressed in 8 hours, from 10 am to 6 pm.
I eat lots of dried fruits (prunes, apricots, dates raisins & cranberrries). I love all desserts especially good icecream and cakes. I only eat whole grain breads. My second colonoscopy is coming up this year at age 77. Last one was at age 67 and was all good and normal, no polyps etc.
I am a physician. My mother died of colon cancer in the ‘60s at 35. I have been scoped every 3 years since I was in my thirties. Usually they harvest 3-5 polyps. My last was 2 weeks ago, they harvested 9.
It may sound curious, but we have been “chasing” colon cancer for decades. When I was in Med school in the 70s we were told that “90% of colon cancer is in reach of the examining finger” which is why we have been sticking fingers up there ever since. At the time it was true, but we found all the ones that were that easy to find. A decade later “90% were in reach of the sigmoidoscope”. The disease wasn’t changing, we were just finding all the low hanging fruit (so to speak). For years I thought perhaps the disease was changing but if you think about it, reporting errors, over representation of known disease vs under representation of unknown disease and it starts to make sense.
At this time, IMHO, almost all colon cancer is genetic. You can read about it, the mechanism is pretty well worked out. All the “fiber diet” or other advice is pretty useless.
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