A young woman who has considered her colon cancer symptoms for historical cramps has argued that others are aware of the meaningful signs of the disease.
Charlotte Lasica, from Sydney, Australia, started to experience stomach pain and cramps suddenly at the beginning of 2024.
But the then 22-year-old blamed her menstrual cycle and eating something that did not agree with her.
It was only after the cramps became more intense in July and her bloated feeling deteriorated that she was encouraged by a friend to check out her symptoms and she contacted a gastroenterologist.
Test results in August revealed that she had three colon cancer stage – which had distributed me to her nearby lymph nodes.
After a major operation to remove her large intestine and eight rounds from debilitating chemotherapy, she was declared freely last month.
Now Mrs. Lasica is calling on people to recognize the few known signs of the cancer and not to give up if they think something is wrong with their bodies, in the midst of an explosion in cases of the disease in young people.
Reminding her frightening test, Mrs. Lasica said: ‘I put it down on my menstrual cycle or just something that I did not agree with my belly.
‘But then last year last year they became really persistent and would not disappear.
“I was swollen, I always felt full. One of my good family friends is studying to become a doctor and she saved me in a certain way.
She pushed me, she said, “You have to check.”
She told ABC News: ‘My gastroenterologist tried to reassure me and say no that it is not colon cancer, you are too young.
Then I went to my colonoscopy and got the news that it was colon cancer.
“I was his youngest patient he ever had to tell the news, so he was also in full shock.”
Every year there are around 44,000 cases of colon cancer in the UK and 142,000 in the US, making it the fourth most common cancer in both countries.
But cases rise in young people, an alarming trend that experts have linked to modern diets, chemical exposure and lifestyle.
Charlotte Lasica, from Sydney, Australia, started to experience stomach pain and cramps suddenly at the beginning of 2024. But the then 22-year-old blamed her menstrual cycle and eating something that was not with her
Colon cancer can ensure that you have blood in your shit, a change in intestinal habit, a lump in your intestine that can cause obstructions. Some people also suffer from weight loss due to these symptoms
Symptoms often include changes in intestinal movements such as consistent and new diarrhea or constipation, which need the need to more or less often pot and blood in the stool.
Stomach pain, a lump in the stomach, a bloated feeling, unexpected weight loss and fatigue include signs.
Everyone who experiences these symptoms must contact their doctor for advice.
In September 2024, Mrs. Lasica underwent a total colectomy – a surgical procedure in which the entire colon is removed – that are complicated in a temporary ileostomy.
Also known as a stoma, this is a permanent opening in the intestine with which her faeces can collect in a bag.
Mrs. Lasica said: ‘I couldn’t look at it for two months, I couldn’t look at it. I refused.
“In the hospital I let my stoma nurse come by and say to me:” You don’t leave until you can change it yourself “and I said,” I don’t do it “.
“I couldn’t do it. But now it’s just my thing. People wake up in the morning and they turn on their glasses to see if they check their glucose.
Dame Deborah James, nicknamed the ‘Barmel Babe’ has collected more than £ 11.3 million for cancer research and is credited to increase the consciousness of the disease, killing her in 2022 40
“I’m just going” this is my thing “and it won’t be forever. It essentially saved my life. ‘
In the next six months she underwent eight rounds of chemotherapy. Last month CT scan results showed that she was officially cancer -free.
Mrs. Lasica urges young people not to ignore red flags and not to take no as an answer if they think there might be something wrong with their health.
“I think I looked good on the outside and I felt good at myself, I just kept rejecting it,” she said.
‘It’s as if I hardly wanted to know, although knowing my results would have changed dramatically.
‘I just want to post my story to encourage people to argue for themselves and if they don’t get answers, to penetrate them.
‘You know your body better than anyone and you can’t let someone tell you otherwise.
“A colonoscopy is nothing compared to what you are going through if you don’t get that initial scope, so do it.”
The disease, the third most common cancer in the UK, is the same type that Dame Deborah James killed At the age of 40 in 2022.
Although the vast majority of colon cancer diagnoses over 50 years of influence, the speeds in older age groups have decreased or kept stable, while the diagnoses in younger adults have risen by 50 percent in the last 30 years.
Cancer Research UK estimates that more than half (54 percent) of the cases of colon cancer can be prevented in the UK.
Doctors have suggested that obesity, excessive use of antibiotics, radiation from mobile phones and even invisible plastic particles in drinking water are potential triggers.
However, a growing number of experts also indicate the cause of ultra -processed foods.
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