Posted on 01/11/2022 12:02:15 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Researchers describe a troubling increase in early-onset colorectal cancer and precancerous polyps, based on a large, nationally representative study of patients under age 50 who underwent colonoscopy. It was the first large-scale study to look at precancerous polyps in this age group.
"We have known for many years that rates of colorectal cancer are rising in individuals younger than 50, prompting several medical organizations to recommend lowering the screening age from 50 to 45. What has been missing until now is confirmatory data of the prevalence of precancerous polyps in younger individuals. Because precancerous lesions are not reportable to regional or national health agencies, we have not had this degree of information to guide our recommendations. Our study provides an important piece of the puzzle and supports the recommendation changing the screening age to 45," says lead author Steven H. Itzkowitz, MD. "Our findings also suggest that messaging aimed at young individuals should begin in the years leading up to this new screening age. We know that most patients do not call their doctors on their 50th birthday to schedule a colonoscopy, so we will need to be diligent to reach this much younger cohort before they turn 45," says Dr. Itzkowitz.
Increasing age, being male and white, having a family history of colorectal cancer, and having had colonoscopies for reasons of bleeding or screening, were all associated with higher odds of advanced premalignant lesions (APLs) and colorectal cancer. Among patients aged 45-49, 32 percent had neoplasia (precancerous or cancerous lesions considered forerunners to colorectal cancer). Nearly 8 percent had APLs, and 0.58 percent had colorectal cancer.
Early-onset colorectal cancer accounts for approximately 12 percent of all colorectal cancer cases, with incidence increasing by 2.2 percent annually from 2012-2016, and mortality increasing by 1.3 percent per year from 2008-2017.
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Two things that I can see. First, more screening means more detection. Second, genetically modified food and the standard American diet results in a myriad of health problems.
Call me crazy, but if this is the first study of this age group, then how can they claim a "troubling increase" in the polyps?
Perhaps the people who chose to take colonoscopy before age 45 are a specific subset, not characteristic of entire population.... so recommendations based on this “a postiori” analysis are skewed/not valid.
I say this because I chose to take the colonoscopy at age 45 because grandmother was diagnosed & treated for colon cancer.
Believe me, you’ll want the sedation
Call me crazy, but if this is the first study of this age group, then how can they claim a “troubling increase” in the polyps?
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Because they think no one will click if you don’t have something scary or sensation in your headline
I was confused by the conflicting claims that there is a “troubling increase” in polyps, yet this is the first large scale study of the age group.
To what are they comparing this study in order to come to the conclusion that there is a “troubling increase?”
Normally, you would need to compare the results of this study to past studies of a similar nature before you could confidently detect a trend.
They have it down to a science, the doctor walks in, the nurse says count to ten, by 3 your out. Next thing you remember is the doctor standing at your bed when you wake up at the exact time he begins speaking.
No thanks - but considering I’ve had two radial approach catheterizations with nothing but Versed on board (fully awake and could feel the thing bumping against my heart at times), I don’t know why a proctologist wouldn’t do a scope with light sedation.
Big Pharma invented modern day “cancer” 100 years ago - create the problem that you sell the drugs to “cure”.
For both mine (last year and five years ago), I don’t remember completely going under. I was in kind of a netherworld where I faded in and out. I’d occasionally wake up for a few seconds and look at the screen and then fade back out.
But when the nurse called my name when it was done, I woke up immediately.
You cannot party hard and let your freak flag fly if the patient is awake....
Had mine done just yesterday! For me, the sedation was a much appreciated nap. As an aside, they found higher than average polyps, which surprised me cuz I’m not a big red meat eater. Hope you get yours, soon!
Because they blow your colon up like a balloon. The pain would drive you insane. They use the Michael Jackson drug to knock you out. You go to sleep instantly, and you wake-up instantly with no hangover and your head is clear, like after a good night’s sleep.
My youngest son, age 48 at the time, was diagnosed with cancerous polyps in 2019. The doctor told him the polyps were so big, he'd wish he'd come to see him 10 years earlier. He would have been 38 at the time, but they didn't do cancer screening on people that young back then. My son had surgery...two re-sections. They also took out at least 70 lymph nodes, and he went through 6 months of chemo. He's cancer-free, but as a mother, I can't help but worry, because he still smokes occasionally. Everyone in my family smoked but me. Three died of lung cancer, one of a stroke, and my only brother at 51, of a massive heart attack. I'm the last one left. The oldest lived to be 74, so if I make it to 75, I'll be lucky.
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