{"id":135633,"date":"2024-12-11T01:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135633"},"modified":"2024-12-11T01:32:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:32:01","slug":"scientists-claim-theyve-found-the-cause-of-mystery-colon-cancers-in-young-people-and-the-lifestyle-factors-that-are-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135633","title":{"rendered":"Scientists claim they&#8217;ve found the cause of mystery colon cancers in young people &#8211; and the lifestyle factors that are to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Colon cancers may be surging in under 50s because some young people&#8217;s bodies are ageing faster than they should be, experts have discovered in a first-of-its-kind study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Researchers at the University of Miami have found the phenomenon \u2014 dubbed accelerated ageing \u2014 may increase the risk of developing the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Accelerated ageing is said to have occurred when a person&#8217;s biological age is greater than their actual \u2014 or chronological \u2014 age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While chronological age refers to years lived, biological age is based on physiological markers that reflect the impact of genetics, lifestyle choices and environmental factors on the body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It can be determined through sophisticated DNA analysis saliva or blood tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">If a person\u00a0is 50, but their biological age is 55, their ageing has accelerated by five years, said\u00a0Dr Shria Kumar, a colorectal <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" id=\"mol-102e7aa0-b721-11ef-8d12-53b701688dd3\" rel=\"noopener\">cancer<\/a> specialist behind the new research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;That might be reflected in overall body functioning,&#8217; she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It sounds pretty theoretical, but actually accelerated aging has been shown to be predictive of time to death and even of multiple cancers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe name=\"xp-iframe-m4iso5yai2nixvo926k\" class=\"iframe-creator \" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/17412029\/embed\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" height=\"600\" style=\"border: 0; width: 0; min-width: 100%; \" id=\"xp-iframe-m4iso5yai2nixvo926k\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>    <iframe data-xpmodule-iframe-resizable=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" name=\"xp-iframe-m4isqfowfog37z4xeu7\" class=\"iframe-creator \" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/20723813\/embed\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" height=\"500\" style=\"border: 0; width: 0; min-width: 100%; \" id=\"xp-iframe-m4isqfowfog37z4xeu7\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Colorectal cancer rates in people under 50, called early-onset colorectal cancer, are <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-13757017\/rise-super-healthy-young-people-colon-cancer-slim-ultra-fit-experts-junk-food.html\" rel=\"noopener\">on the rise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The finding comes amid a worldwide explosion of colon cancers in younger patients that has baffled doctors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While it is most common in over-50s, the disease has surged by 50 per cent in the younger age-groups over the past three decades, recent data suggests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">For this reason in the US, health chiefs now recommended colon cancer screening \u2014 also known as bowel cancer screening \u2014 starts at 45.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Some doctors now say this needs to be moved even younger, because half of early-onset colorectal cancers occur in people under 45, according to the latest statistics from the National Cancer Institute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In the UK, <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" id=\"mol-1032e770-b721-11ef-8d12-53b701688dd3\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS<\/a> screening is only available to those aged 54 to 74.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Perhaps the most recognisable victim of the trend is <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-14068359\/Dame-Deborah-Jamess-mother-admits-naive-daughters-bowel-cancer-diagnosis-thought-late-campaigner-fine-six-months.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Deborah James<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 known as &#8216;bowel babe&#8217; \u2014 who was diagnosed at just 35 and raised millions for charity in her final days in 2022, before she died aged 40.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">James spoke of her rigorous exercise routine, and being in the best shape of her life when she developed the illness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"> <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9c24f69b5ef0007c\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/12\/10\/14\/92999617-14176551-image-m-4_1733841497175.jpg\" height=\"740\" width=\"634\" alt=\"If a person is 50, but their biological age is 55, their ageing has accelerated by five years, said Dr Shria Kumar, a colorectal cancer specialist behind the new research\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-9c24f69b5ef0007c\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2024\/12\/10\/14\/92999617-14176551-image-m-4_1733841497175.jpg\" height=\"740\" width=\"634\" alt=\"If a person is 50, but their biological age is 55, their ageing has accelerated by five years, said Dr Shria Kumar, a colorectal cancer specialist behind the new research\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">If a person is 50, but their biological age is 55, their ageing has accelerated by five years, said Dr Shria Kumar, a colorectal cancer specialist behind the new research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The exact reason for the link between accelerated ageing and colon cancer isn&#8217;t fully understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">However, some factors that raise a person&#8217;s risk of early-onset colorectal cancer also elevate biological age.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">These include poor diets \u2014 including diets high in ultra-processed foods \u2014 obesity, smoking, alcohol consumption and other lifestyle habits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Other key factors in accelerated ageing are pollution and stress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Earlier this year,<a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-13330909\/Race-Generation-Z-ageing-faster-anxiety-diet-vaping-linked-high-cancer-rates-young-people-accelerated-ageing.html\" rel=\"noopener\"> separate research<\/a> found young people diagnosed with certain types of cancer \u2013 especially lung, gastrointestinal and uterine cancers \u2013 were more likely to suffer accelerated ageing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Intriguingly, the US researchers involved in the study said there was &#8216;strong evidence&#8217; that the risk of accelerated ageing, and therefore of developing cancer, increased with each successive generation born after 1965.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">And that may mean Gen Z \u2013 those born between 1997 and 2012 who are becoming young adults today \u2013 are at a far greater risk of developing potentially deadly diseases such as cancer at a much earlier stage than their parents or grandparents.<\/p>\n<p><iframe name=\"xp-iframe-m4isqx6w6vdnvmijmhi\" class=\"iframe-creator \" src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/visualisation\/17269257\/embed\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" height=\"600\" style=\"border: 0; width: 0; min-width: 100%; \" id=\"xp-iframe-m4isqx6w6vdnvmijmhi\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>    <iframe name=\"xp-iframe-m4iskx48i8xfndm3gb\" class=\"iframe-creator \" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/20723924\/embed\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" height=\"500\" style=\"border: 0; width: 0; min-width: 100%; \" id=\"xp-iframe-m4iskx48i8xfndm3gb\"><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Professor Ilaria Bellantuono, co-director of the Healthy Lifespan Institute at the University of Sheffield, told MailOnline: &#8216;We don&#8217;t know enough to say for certain that younger generations are ageing faster or why,&#8217; she says.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;That research hasn&#8217;t been done. But it&#8217;s not impossible. We are seeing more disease in younger people, the kinds of diseases we might normally expect to be developing in older adults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;And biological ageing is a risk factor for those diseases. In the same way that smokers increase their risk of lung cancer, does accelerated ageing increase the risk of developing more multiple long-term chronic conditions?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dr Kumar suggested that testing for accelerated ageing could help flag up younger individuals who need to be offered regular screening and colonoscopies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Colon cancer screening comes in the form of convenient stool-sample tests carried out at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">It is offered as early detection of the disease has been shown to improve both treatment options and outcomes for this disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A positive screening test result is typically followed by a colonoscopy, during which any polyps found can be removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;It sounds pretty theoretical, but accelerated aging has been shown to be predictive of time to death and even of multiple cancers,&#8217; Dr Kumar continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;What&#8217;s really exciting about the opportunity in colorectal cancer is that we have a clear prevention tactic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Colonoscopy is not only early detection, but also cancer prevention.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Consultant oncologist Dr Hendrik-Tobias Arkenau, from HCA Healthcare in London, said the colon<span style=\"font-family: var(--mol-default-font-family); font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0cancers in young people are most frequently only being spotted in their later, or sometimes tragically, final stages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Who thinks a 35 or 42-year-old has bowel cancer if they have tummy ache, weight loss, some blood (in stool),\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Dr Arkenau said he believes the reason behind the increase to be unclear, although he thought it was a combination of factors influencing the microbiome of young people&#8217;s guts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He said use of antibiotics in childhood, falling rates of breastfeeding, vitamin intake and diet changes are just some factors that could be at play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018There is no clear cut one thing, I think it is multi-factorial and there are other aspects,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Analysis suggests deaths from colon cancer overall in the UK are set to rise by 2,500 a year between now and 2040.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Meanwhile, the number of people in the UK diagnosed with the disease will rise by around a tenth in the same period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Bowel cancer currently kills just shy of 17,000 Brits each year with only half of those diagnosed expected to survive 10 years after learning they have the disease.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-14176551\/Scientists-cause-mystery-colon-cancers-young-people-lifestyle-factors.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colon cancers may be surging in under 50s because some young people&#8217;s bodies are ageing faster than they should be, experts have discovered in a first-of-its-kind study. 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