WASHINGTON - Actor Chadwick Boseman's death from colon cancer at the age of 43 has highlighted the growing rate of this disease among younger adults, who are often diagnosed at later stages.
The suspicion is that environmental factors, such as shifts in diets and lifestyle, could be behind the increase.Since 1994, US cases of young-onset colorectal cancer - defined as a diagnosis before the age of 50 - have increased by 50 per cent. They also include feelings of having to pass stool that don't go away by doing so, rectal bleeding or blood in the stool, abdominal pain, weakness, fatigue and weight loss.For David Thau, it took shooting pain in the abdomen - the worst he'd ever felt in his life - for him to go see his primary care doctor in June 2019.
Fortunately, surgeons were able to extract it using small incisions and he did not require an ileostomy - a surgical opening to a bag that holds stool. Ghazala Siddiqui, from Houston, went to an emergency room in March 2018 after finding it impossible to pass stool, despite using laxatives.
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