Colorectal cancer patients are getting younger
Picture courtesy of Sri Pelancongan Sabah.
Gastroenterologists (specialists in digestive diseases) may differ on diagnosis and treatment of many digestive and liver disorders. But they are agreed that colorectal or colon cancer is the most preventable, treatable and beatable cancer. And this has become their mantra. But who is listening? Colon cancer has unwittingly become the second most prevalent cancer after breast cancer in Sabah. What is worrying is that patients are getting younger. Many of them are in their 30s or even younger. Four-fifths of them turn up in later stages of the disease, according to Dr Raman Muthukaruppan, president of the Malaysian Society of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. And this has sent doctors searching for answers.
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