“I have one younger patient who was a very competitive biker who noticed instead of 100 miles a week, he could only bike 50 miles a week,” she says. “It turned out he had rectal cancer and slowly losing blood, and that was the reason.”
every 10 years, which recently changed from 50. Teitelbaum believes that both patients and primary care physicians need to be aware that colorectal cancer can occur to younger people. “Once it spreads beyond to the liver, the chance of it being curable is much lower,” she says. “That said, I am happy to say most of the time, even when it’s not curable, it’s treatable.”
Brendan Menapace experienced neuropathy when he underwent chemotherapy but is lucky that it stopped after treatment ended.While Menapace received chemotherapy, he experienced neuropathy, numbness and tingling from nerve damage. As soon as treatment stopped, these symptoms went away. He has had to adjust to not having a rectum.
Oh my goodness - how sad! We really need insurance to pay for the screening for this if any doctor recommends it even if the patient is under 50. It's still a huge fight!