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Doctors discover tragic new details about young people with colon cancer

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The graph above shows the increase in colorectal cancers in men and women in the US from 2000 to 2021.

As if receiving a devastating diagnosis in the prime of their lives wasn’t bad enough.

Doctors have discovered a tragic new detail about young colon cancer patients: They are at a much higher risk of suicide.

Men ages 35 to 49 with cancer, defined as “early onset,” were 60 percent more likely to take their own lives than their peers without cancer.

There was a similar increased risk in men over 60 years of age. Meanwhile, women suffered 12 percent more suicides than their healthy peers, with those in their 20s having the highest risk of suicide.

The impact of a diagnosis at such a critical time in young people’s lives could cause irreparable pain, the researchers wrote.

Experts believe that colorectal cancer patients in particular may also be driven to suicide due to body image issues, as some patients may be fitted with colostomy bags due to colorectal surgeries.

The findings come amid a colon cancer epidemic. dthe diagnoses have It increased in the US over the past two decades.and healthy people between 20 and 30 years old are increasingly suffering from the disease.

Experts are racing to find the cause, with recent research pointing to obesity, processed foods, and sedentary lifestyles as being to blame.

The graph above shows the increase in colorectal cancers in men and women in the US from 2000 to 2021.

Amid a growing avalanche of theories, researchers in North Carolina and Texas have identified common mental health problems in these patients after studying more than 500,000 patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).

The team wrote in a medical journal in the Surgical Research Journal: ‘To our knowledge, the impact of a CRC diagnosis on suicide risk has not been studied, particularly among young adults in the United States.

“This is particularly important given the increasing incidence of early-onset CRC and the impact of this diagnosis and treatment at a younger age.”

The study analyzed 530,711 colorectal cancer patients between 20 and 84 years old. About 54 percent of the participants were men and 69 percent were white.

Of all the participants, there were 782 suicides, and almost nine in 10 of them were among men.

The researchers found an increased risk of suicide among men ages 35 to 49 and women ages 20 to 24.

The team said this could be because colon cancer interrupts “a critical time in life,” including going to college, getting married and starting a family.

The researchers wrote: “Certainly, the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of CRC during this period can be especially detrimental to your mental health.”

Men over 60 with colon cancer were also more likely than their peers to commit suicide.

The team said this is consistent with CDC data, which shows that among men, those over 75 have the highest rate of suicide.

Single patients were also more likely to commit suicide than married patients, which could be due to a lack of social support.

Patients with more advanced disease were also twice as likely to commit suicide than those diagnosed at an earlier stage, likely because they had a poor prognosis and faced a greater financial burden.

The team said doctors should pay more attention to the mental health of colon cancer patients and screen for depression in newly diagnosed patients.

Joe Faratzis (pictured left and right) was diagnosed with colon cancer after ignoring his symptoms for eight months.

The disease later spread to his liver and lungs, leading him to regret waiting so long to get tested.

Joe Faratzis (pictured left and right) was diagnosed with colon cancer after ignoring his symptoms for eight months. The disease later spread to his liver and lungs, leading him to regret waiting so long to get tested.

Evan White (pictured) was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 24. He died four years later, just weeks before their wedding.

Evan White (pictured) was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 24. He died four years later, just weeks before their wedding.

Many young patients have their symptoms dismissed for more benign gastrointestinal conditions, leading to more aggressive disease.

DailyMail.com has repeatedly documented the global rise in colon cancer among young men.

Joe Faratzis, a 34-year-old man from Los Angeles, noticed a “mild, dull pain” in his abdomen in 2019, but assumed scans were unnecessary.

Six months later, there was blood on the toilet paper when he went to the bathroom, although he “wasn’t too worried.”

Just two months after that, he finally agreed to have a colonoscopy, which found stage four colon cancer. The disease later spread to his lungs and liver.

Although he is currently in remission, Faratzis regrets waiting so long to get tested.

He said in a recent TikTok video: ‘Listen to your body. If you think something is wrong, it doesn’t hurt to go get it checked out.

“If I hadn’t waited, if I had the CT scan in 2019, when I had my first symptoms of colorectal cancer, I may not have ended up in the position I am in now.”

And Evan White of Dallas had just graduated with a degree in finance from the University of Arkansas when he was diagnosed with colon cancer after months of dismissing his main symptom, fatigue.

The tumor was not detected until it progressed to stage three, meaning it had spread outside the colon, making it much more difficult to treat.

He died at the age of 29, shortly before his wedding.

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