Colon cancer alarm: The disease is that dangerous for young people!

Colon cancer alarm: The disease is that dangerous for young people!

Vienna and Lower Austria fight with alarming death rates through colon cancer, which is the third most common cancer in Austria. Around 5,000 people fall ill annually, and almost 3,000 people lose their lives. A frightening fact is that in Lower Austria only nine percent of over 45-year-olds regularly go to preventive examinations. This neglect of cancer advantage could have fatal consequences, since the Austrian cancer aid emphasizes that the disease can be largely prevented with timely examinations. Over 90 percent of the diseases are due to the degeneration of polyps that can be discovered and removed in such examinations, according to the explanations of .

The increase in colon cancer cases in younger people is particularly worrying. A comprehensive study, published in the European Journal of Cancer , shows that despite a generally better physical condition, overall survival is no better in younger people than in the elderly. Research has shown that 60 percent of younger patients with advanced diseases were diagnosed in stage III or IV, while this was only 49 percent in older people. A decisive factor is the late stage in which the disease is determined. It turns out that despite the better physical prerequisites of the younger ones, the cancer -related survival remains comparable, as it krebsgesellschaft.de . Especially in the case of rectal cancer, young patients even have a poorer survival than older patients.