For many Americans, opening a soft drink is a small daily pampering – a carbonated treat combined with a otherwise balanced lifestyle.
But a new study suggests that even this seemingly innocent habit could be the turbo to hurt one of the deadliest forms of cancer that nowadays striking young people.
Researchers have found a connection every day between consuming at least one sugar -like soft drink or candy and late stage of colon cancer, the most difficult form of the disease to treat.
Almost half of the young adults, defined as less than 50, with stage four cancer that consumed at least one super sugar -like treatment a day compared to less than 30 percent of patients with stage one to three colon cancer.
They found no connection between colon cancer and consumption of red meat, processed foods, fruit, vegetables, fish, poultry or dairy products. It specifically suggests a disturbing link to sugar.
Dr. Emma Schatoff, a medical oncologist from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center who led the study, told The Daily Mail: ‘Young people came in with metastatic disease, or cancer that had spread everywhere – it was in their liver, lungs, other organs – and they were very surprised.
‘We looked at everything that could have increased their risk level. We looked at inflammatory bowel disorders and medication use, but found no difference there.
‘Then we looked at diet and did not find a link with processed foods or red meat. But we have found a link with foods with a high sugar in the diagnosis of the disease for the first time with the disease. ‘
Heather Candrilli (left) was diagnosed last spring 4 colon cancer at the age of 36 –
She added: ‘We have defined a diet with a high sugar as daily consumption of foods with a high sugar, such as a [single] Soft drink or a candy. ‘
It is thought that sugar can cause harmful changes in intestinal microbiome, which can lead to mutations in cells that lead to themselves.
According to the CDC, an estimated 63 percent of Americans of 18 years or older report at least one soft drink per day.
The study included 303 colon cancer patients under the age of 50, of which 112 stage four illness and 191 had stages one to three illness.
Each filled in a nutritional questionnaire to enable researchers to analyze their consumption and to detect possible connections between their diet and illness.
Patients were asked: “Two to five years before the diagnosis, how often did you have one portion of high sugar food (for example soft drinks, candy).”
In general, 45 percent of the stage 4 patients reported the daily consumption of foods with a high sugar.
For comparison, the share was 29 percent in the group with less advanced cancers.
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The study concludes: ‘In a single center survey, with early colon cancer patients, diets with a high sugar can be associated with the Novo [new] Seweled disease. ‘
It was presented at the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, Illinois, the largest meeting of cancer researchers, which is attended by 40,000 people.
The results have been published As abstractAnd not yet in a scientific journal where they will be assessed by other scientists.
Scientists say that regularly consuming soft drinks can ensure that sugar builds up in the large intestine when it cannot be completely absorbed, which means that the intestinal microbiome is changed and possibly increases the inflammatory levels.
They also say that sugar can be used as a fuel for tumor cells so that the cancer can grow faster.
A study published last year showed that diets with little fiber and a lot of sugar generate the proliferation of a bacteria called fusobacterium in the gut.
This causes widespread inflammation in the intestine, which has been shown to have cells from age, making them more vulnerable to carcinogenic mutations.
Bailey Hutchins van Tennessee, depicted, died of colon cancer just 26 years old
In the new study, 51 percent of patients were female. All had no earlier cancer diagnosis and were younger than 50 years old.
Persons with the diagnosis of stage four were younger, at an average age of 41 years, compared to 43 years in the other group.
Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the US and the second leading cause of cancer deaths.
The American Cancer Society estimates that 154,270 Americans will be diagnosed with colon cancer this year and 52,900 will die.
In the UK, 44,063 cases are diagnosed a year and the nation experiences 16,808 dead every year.
Since the 1990s, early colon cancer has increased by 50 percent and the rates are expected to be doubled between 2010 and 2030.
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