YOUNG adultsCANCER patientsOVERALL survivalPROGRESSION-free survivalCOLECTOMYONCOLOGIC surgeryBackground: The clinicopathological features, surgical outcomes, and long-term survival of patients with young-onset colon cancer (≤ 40 years old) remain controversial. Methods: The clinicopathologic and follow-up ...
Colorectal cancer remains a relatively uncommon disease among young people. But that creates a diagnostic hurdle: When a young woman, for example, tells a doctor that she’s experiencing severe pain in her lower abdomen, or blood in her stool, or unexplained weight loss, the doctor pr...
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Medical researchers have been tracking the increase in colorectal cancer among younger adultsfor years now, even as the rates in older people decline. As CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook has reported, the decline among patients over 50 is due to the success of colonoscopies, ...
(people younger than 50 were just as likely as older adults to have some kind of weight loss.) but del valle, who was ultimately diagnosed with stage iv cancer (it had spread to her liver), makes another point: she actually gained weight while bleeding heavily and assumed that was a ...
Colon cancer is increasingly hitting Americans under the age of 50, and a new study outlines the warning signs that these young patients first encounter. The an
in new york city. symptoms of colon cancer vary, but include changes in bowel habits, blood in the stool, persistent abdominal cramps and unexplained weight loss. sometimes, mendelsohn said, young adults ignore those symptoms initially. but doctors may not recognize colon cancer as a possibl...
“If the current pace continues, by 2030, the rate of colon cancer in young adults, meaning people under the age of 50, will have doubled, and for rectal cancer, it will actually have quadrupled,” Liska says. “It’s probably an interplay of both environmental factors and some host-rel...
When it comes to preventing colon cancer in young adults, diet plays a huge role in decreasing the risk. Researchers havenow concludedthat Mediterranean dietary pattern is linked to lower risk of colon cancer. In contrast, a typical western diet goes the other way round. ...
Being overweight or obese and the use of tobacco are also risk factors for colon cancer. But Dr. Cedar says he's diagnosed colon cancer in several young adults who are healthy and don't have any of the usual risk factors. There may be unique risk factors for colon cancer in younger adu...