Young people must be alert to the signs of a deadly cancer that rises in the 1950s, experts have warned – and it is not bowel cancer.
Cases of appendix cancer in American people over 30 have risen by a shocking 71 percent in the last two decades, according to a recent study.
The research, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, revealed that Millennials, between 29 and 44 years old, are now the age group that most likely develops the cancer, who kills half of those with advanced disease within five years.
The experts, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, suggested that the Golf can be due to lifestyle factors as always bad diets.
But medical professionals and campaigners have previously warned the public to pay attention to signs of the disease, which can easily be seen for benign digestive problems.
Speaking in a tap -video, Dr. Ryan InceA general practitioner in Texas, said that a bloated feeling and chronic abdominal pain are significant signs that can help you see the disease in the earliest stages.
However, he warned that most patients in later stages are seen when the cancer has spread to the liver, which causes shortness of breath, a flushed face and diarrhea.
The appendix is a small bag of tissue connected to the intestine on the bottom right of the abdomen.
The image above shows the symptoms of appendiceal or appendix, cancer. Doctors detect a mysterious rise in cases of the disease
The organ is part of the intestines and helps remove waste from the body. Although the exact function is unknown, researchers say it can help support the immune system.
However, the organ can also produce cancer cells, which start to distribute uncontrollably, creating tumors.
These can grow from cells that hold the attachment, or from the chemicals involved in digestion.
In many cases it is only when doctors remove the organ that appendicitis suspects – the swelling and infection in the appendix – that the cancer is diagnosed.
If the cancer is caught early, patients have an optimistic 67 to 97 percent probability to survive more than five years after their diagnosis.
But for those whose cancer is not caught at stages three or four, when it has spread to other parts of the body, the chances of survival are dramatically lower, with studies that estimate the figure that is around 50 percent.
The disease can spread to different parts of the abdomen, leading to severe pain.
Cancer can also cause the appendix to burst, which is a very serious condition that can lead to a number of complications, including Sepsis, warns the NHS.
Rebecca Hind, from Cumbria, was diagnosed with disease in 2019, 33 years old, after suffering from severe stomach pain, which she rejected as food poisoning.
What followed was years of meticulous operations to remove 13 from her organs, more than eight debilitating rounds of chemotherapy and medically induced menopause in just 35 years old.
Highly, the last round of treatment cannot keep the cancer at bay and doctors have told her that the disease is terminal.
Although it is not entirely clear what is behind the increase in the appendix cancer, researchers described what is known as a ‘birth cohort’ effect -where a disease occurs more often in successive generations.
The idea is that people who were born after a certain time have had a similar exposure to environmental triggers to which older generations were not exposed.
In general, the study showed that Millennials born between 1981 and 1996 were a maximum of seven times more likely to get the cancer than those who belong to the so -called Pacific generation, or those from 43 to 80 years old.
Researchers suggested that risk factors associated with colon cancer – such as obesity, diet, alcohol and smoking – could also play a role in Appendicale Cancer.
Rebecca Hind Before Cancer, September 2015 at work in the Ogwen Valley, the Outward Bound Trust
They said: “Good 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.”
The slight upward trend in the disease seems to be faster than that for colon cancer.
Among adults aged 20 to 39, estimates suggest that cases have risen by two percent per year on average.
For those aged 30 to 39 years old, things rose by five percent per year in general.
Nevertheless, the young diagnoses of colon cancer have risen by 80 percent in the past 30 years, research suggests.
Every year there are around 2,600 new cases of colon cancer in people aged 25-49 in the UK.
Symptoms of the disease are similar to those of appendiceal cancer, but there can also be blood in the stool.
The disease kills nearly 17,000 people in the UK every year, with the death toll rising to around 50,000 in America.
In general, it is expected that just over half of the colon cancer patients will live 10 years after their diagnosis.
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