The epidemic of colon cancer among young people is increasingly becoming the focus of research and alarm – but there is a different form of the deadly disease that rises even faster.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University say that appendiceal cancer, also known as Appendix Cancer, where actor Adan Canto was killed at the age of 42, now increases in people younger than 50 years old.
A new study showed that Millennials (people 29 to 44) have the highest risk to develop the cancer, with the rates among those in the age of thirty to seven times higher than in the 1940s – and much larger than the five other age groups included in the study.
Despite the increase, the cancer remains extremely rare, the researchers said, with only about 3,000 cases that were diagnosed in the US every year.
It is not clear how many people die from the disease, but officials say that if it is caught early between 67 and 97 percent of patients who live for more than five years.
But appendiceal cancer is worrying because it is often rejected in early stages for other, more benign disorders, such as food poisoning or intestinal problems.
It is not clear what can cause the cancer to occur more often, but researchers said this could be linked to a new ‘environmental exposure’ to which older generations were not exposed.
Adan Canto, depicted above in 2016 who participated in a triathlon in Malibu, California, died of cancer at the age of 42 after a private battle with the disease
In the study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers analyzed data from the Seer database – who collects data about cancer cases in the US.
They have extracted data over 4,858 patients who were diagnosed with appendiceal cancer between 1975 and 2019 and divided them into birth cohorts.
Incidence rates per group were adjusted to take into account age differences.
Rates per 100,000 people were then compared to those born for people between 1941 and 1950, who represented the middle point of birth cohorts.
In general, they found millennials born between 1981 and 1996, had a risks to the diagnosis of the cancer compared to the silent generation, or born between 1928 and 1945.
Those in Generation X, born between 1965 and 1980, had a to double higher risk of developing the cancer.
And Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, had a risks of suffering to the disease.
On the other side of the scale, people in the largest generation – born between 1901 and 1927 – had up to 80 percent lower risk of suffering from the disease when they lived.
Researchers wrote in the report: ‘A birth cohort effect corresponds to population shifts in the event of exposure to the environment that can increase the risk for generations that are now in the middle of the Adultus.
‘The trends observed in our study can be partially explained by a fast -growing recognition in the past decade that appendiceal cancers are a biological distinctal malignancy of colon adenocarcinomas.
“Well-established risk factors of colon and rectum cancer, including experiences in early life, exposure to the environment, anthropometric and lifestyle factors (for example obesity, diet, alcohol and tobacco), as well as the interaction between these factors and genetic characteristics can also contribute to appendical cancer.”
Rebecca Hind Before Cancer, September 2015 at work in the Ogwen Valley, the Outward Bound Trust
The attachment is a small bag on the side of the colon. The exact function is not known, but researchers say it can help the immune system.
With cancer in this organ, cells begin to share uncontrollably – with early symptoms such as a bloated feeling and abdominal pain that is often rejected as digestive complications.
In many cases it is only when doctors suspect the appendix or inflammation of the appendix to remove that the cancer is diagnosed.
If it is caught in early stages, patients have a chance of 67 to 97 percent to survive for more than five years. But for those whose cancer is not caught until it has spread, his chances of survival are usually lower.
Patients who have suffered from the cancer also include 39-year-old Rebecca Hindvan Cumbria, UK, who was diagnosed at the age of 33.
She started to suffer from severe stomach pain after a Christmas party at work in 2018, which initially put down on food poisoning.
But when they lasted for eight weeks, she went to doctors – who diagnosed the cancer.
Hind has now had operations to remove 13 from her organs, more than eight debilitating rounds of chemotherapy and medically induced menopause to beat the cancer.
The graph above showed the Appendiceal Cancer speed through birth ecohort and age rate. The researchers said it shows that appendiceal cancer is increasingly prevalent
The image above shows the symptoms of appendiceal or appendix, cancer. Doctors detect a mysterious rise in cases of the disease
The increase in appendix cancer, although from a very low basis, seems to be faster than those for colon cancer with cases that rise 71 percent at 30 to 34-year-olds during the two decades to 2020.
Among adults aged 20 to 39, estimates suggest that cases have risen by two percent per year on average.
In Europe, data between 2005 and 2016, the cases of colon cancer rose by eight percent per year at the age of 20 to 29 years old.
For those aged 30 to 39 years old, things rose by five percent per year in general. And among those aged 40 to 49, they rose on average two percent per year.
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