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43-year-old teacher Ros Atkins thought the long-standing pains on the right side of his body were ‘muscle pain’, but it turned out that the real cause of the pain was ‘colon cancer’. The teacher, who struggled for months to overcome the disease, died on October 3rd.
Ros Atkins, a 43-year-old school principal living in England, felt a pain in the right side of her body while on vacation in Scotland with her husband John and their six-year-old daughter, Maggie.
Described by everyone around him as an ‘inspiring teacher’, Ros did not dwell on the pain in her body, thinking that it could be a muscle pulling or a muscle aches. However, when they returned home after the holiday was over, the pain began to worsen.
The unfortunate woman went to her family doctor to find out the cause of her pain, but the doctor stated that she might have a clot in her lung and stated that she needed to see a specialist doctor urgently.
When the 43-year-old woman went to the specialist doctor and had an MRI scan, cancerous cells were indeed found in her lung.
After the tests, the cause of the woman’s pain was determined. ‘bowel cancer’ turned out to be.
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IT IS TOLD TO LAST BETWEEN 18 MONTHS AND 5 YEARS
Ros’ cancer was stage 4 and had spread to her lungs and lymph nodes. Doctors told the woman that she had between 18 months and 5 years to live.
The woman, who is a 6-year-old girl, decided to try everything to prolong her life and received a long course of chemotherapy.
USED HIS STORY TO CREAT AWARENESS
After months of struggling to combat the disease, Ros continued to work during this time and used her story to raise awareness.
The teacher, who struggled to get other people to recognize the signs of cancer and get to know their own bodies, died earlier this month, on October 3.
While Ros’ death mourned her family and loved ones, her husband started a charity campaign for cancer patients.
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COLON CANCER WHY? WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?
Colon cancer, which is the most common type of cancer after lung cancer in Turkey (colon cancer) The period between the onset of the growth of abnormal cells and the formation of polyps and the development of colon cancer is approximately 7-10 years.
Factors that increase the risk of colon cancer include:
1- Age factor: Age factor has a very important place in all types of cancer. People over the age of forty have a 70 percent higher risk of developing colon cancer.
2- Weight factor: It is a known fact that obesity does not only increase weight and decrease living standards. Being overweight causes many different diseases to spread much faster. One of these diseases is colon cancer. With excess weight, bowel movements become irregular in the body, which cannot perform its functions as before. This triggers the risk of colon cancer.
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3- Nutritional habits: Colon cancer is mostly seen in the USA. The biggest reason for this is that fast-food eating habits prepared with frozen oils have reached their peak. These foods are harmful to the intestines and the whole body. The risk of colon cancer is minimized in people who have a regular and balanced diet.
4- Smoking and alcohol consumption: Contrary to popular belief, smoking and alcohol consumption do not only increase the risk of lung cancer. However, it is also effective in the spread of many cancers, especially colon cancer. Especially people over the age of fifty should completely get rid of such harmful habits.
COLON CANCER SYMPTOMS WHAT?
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1- Constant feeling of fullness: People with colon cancer cannot relax even when they go to the toilet. While the feeling of fullness is felt more intensely in the intestines, it can also compress the stomach organ. It is one of the biggest and most common symptoms.
2- Difficulty in defecation: In the later stages, patients have difficulty in defecating. At the same time, intense pain may be felt during defecation. These pains can occur not only after meals but also at any time of the day.
3- Bleeding from the anus: One of the biggest signs of the disease progress and the spread of cancer is blood coming from the anus. In such cases, you should go to the nearest hospital and see a specialist doctor.
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The symptoms of colon cancer vary from person to person.
PROGRESSING SLIGHTLY
Diagnosis of colon cancer, which progresses quite insidiously, is very difficult. A series of tests should definitely be checked. The first of these tests is the stool test. In this test, also called the occult blood test, it is checked whether the stool is bloody. Apart from these, radiological and laboratory examinations are also carried out. Finally, the diseases of people who have undergone endoscopy are diagnosed definitively.
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