According to a recent study, there are four easily identifiable symptoms that present a risk of developing colorectal cancer.
Unfortunately, cancers continue to claim many victims every year all over the world. In order to protect yourself as much as possible, it is important to remain vigilant about your health. For example, we know that smoking increases the risk of developing bladder cancer. But also that oral sex could be responsible for throat cancer. This time we focus on colorectal cancer, which affects each year at least 43,336 people.
Colorectal cancer, also called colorectal cancer, mainly affects people over 50 years old. However, a recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, explains that this cancer is on the rise among young people. And some early symptoms would make it possible to detect it more quickly. Indeed, researchers have studied the data of 5,000 people suffering from this cancer, at an early stage. And scientists have found that four symptoms were present prior to diagnosis.
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Colorectal cancer: the symptoms that should alert
These four symptoms should therefore alert patients. It is :
- Abdominal pain,
- rectal bleeding,
- Diarrhea,
- Iron deficiency anemia (decrease in red blood cells due to lack of iron).
In a press release, Yin Cao, the lead author of the study explains: “We want young adults to be aware of these potentially very telling signs and symptoms and to act accordingly. Especially because people under the age of 50 are considered to be at low risk and they do not benefit from systematic screening for colorectal cancer”.
But that’s not all. If the presence of one symptom is worrying, the presence of several symptoms is all the more so. Indeed, according to the same study, the presence of two symptoms increases the risk of developing colorectal cancer by more than 3.5 times. Worse still, the presence of three symptoms or more would increase the risk of more than 6.5 times.
“We constated that some young adults had symptoms for up to two years before being diagnosed. This may be part of the reason why many of these young patients had more advanced disease at the time of diagnosis than what is normally seen in older people who are regularly screened”, states the press release.