by According to a new review, people under the age of 50 has inflicted a dramatic increase in the stomach -intestine cancer in humans under 50 years.
Gastrointestinal cancer such as colon cancer and pancreatic cancer are “the fastest early early cancer cancer in the United States,” wrote the researchers in a review that was published on Thursday in the journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Colon cancer, which develops in the large intestine or in the rectum, was mostly diagnosed in early gastrointestinal cancer in the USA in 2022 with just more than 20,800 people.
This year there were 2,689 diagnoses of stomach cancer that develop in the gastric mucosa, followed by 2,657 diagnoses of pancreatic cancer and 875 diagnoses of esophageal cancer.
Most early gastrointestinal cancer are associated with risk factors that could change, such as obesity, diet with poor quality and a somewhat inactive lifestyle. Smoking cigarettes and alcohol are other risk factors.
“It is really what people are doing or exposed to when they were infants, children and young people who are likely to contribute to their risk of developing cancer as a young adult,” said Dr. Kimmie NG, co-author and director of colorectal cancer in the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, compared to NBC News.
There are also risk factors that have no control patients about the family history and hereditary syndromes. People with early colon cancer could have inflammatory bowel diseases.
The researchers wrote in the overview: “The forecast for patients with early GI cancers is similar to patients with later GI cancer, which highlight the need for improved prevention methods and early detection.”
The American Cancer Society recommends people with an average risk that colon cancer will be checked regularly at the age of 45. Before 2018, the ACS recommended the age of 50.
“In this age group, it never came up and now, now a very significant increase in 20, 30 and 40-year-olds, colon cancer are ill,” said Dr. John Marshall, chief consultant for non -profit colon cancer, who was not involved in the review, NBC News.
It is still unclear why young patients with gastrointestinal cancer could have worse survival rates than older patients.
“My personal feeling is that we find them in a more advanced stage because people don’t really think of colon or other GI cancer when they see a young person with these non -specific complaints,” Dr. Howard Hochster, director of gastrointestinal intestine at Rutgers Cancer Institute and Rwjbarnabas Health in New Jersey, in New Jersey.
But ng said, even if the cancer phase is taken into account, young patients still seem to have worse survival rates and asked if there is a biological reason.
