Two sugary drinks a day can double young women’s risk of bowel cancer
Each daily serving was linked with a 16 per cent higher risk of the disease
7 May 2021 • 6:00am
Drinking two or more sugary drinks a day more than doubles younger women’s risk of bowel cancer, researchers have warned.
A new study found that each daily serving was linked with a 16 per cent higher risk of the disease.
But it found that replacing sugar-sweetened beverages with artificially sweetened drinks, coffee or milk led to a lower risk of disease.
Cases of bowel cancer diagnosed before the age of 50, formally known as early onset colorectal cancer, have been increasing in many high income countries over the past two decades.
Nottingham mum was told she had cancer just after running half marathon
She ate the right food, exercised frequently, and regularly ran marathons
14:36, 7 MAY 2021
Miranda Clayton in hospital (Image: Miranda Clayton)
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A mum has described the reality of being diagnosed with cancer under the age of 40 and the symptoms that came with it.
Published:
9:09 AM April 28, 2021
Stevenage bowel cancer survivor Kris Westcott is urging people not to delay seeing their GP if they have symptoms of the killer disease
- Credit: Courtesy of Kris Westcott
Bowel cancer is most common in people aged over 60, but a keen runner diagnosed when he was just 36 is keen to promote the never too young message, especially as April is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month.
Kris Westcott, who lives in Stevenage, was given the devastating news he had bowel cancer in May 2019, after doctors found a 10cm tumour.
He had surgery to remove the tumour, followed by a three-month course of Folfox chemotherapy - a treatment specifically for bowel cancer, and he is now thankfully in remission.
Mr Nagarajan Pranesh, consultant colorectal surgeon at Warrington Hospital, gives vital advice this month APRIL is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month; an important time to raise awareness of the fourth most common cancer in the UK, which is also known as colorectal cancer as it starts in the colon or rectum. According to Bowel Cancer UK, every 15 minutes somebody is diagnosed with bowel cancer in the UK. As a consultant, I know bowel cancer can affect anybody, regardless of their age or background but it s treatable and curable especially if diagnosed early, and nearly everyone survives if diagnosed at the earliest stage.
Debbie Taylor's scans are now clear after her 2018 diagnosis and she hopes Lorraine Kelly's 'No Butts' campaign will raise awareness of the disease's symptoms.