A surgeon is praying with generation Z to get a basic test to avoid a future battle of cancer and leave embarrassment to talk about bowel movements and bad diets.
Dr. Mark Soliman has noticed a terrible increase in young patients who are diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
The doctor is seeing more and more 20-year-olds who have been diagnosed with this “100% preventable” disease.
With Mars being the month of colorectal cancer, the 44-year-old doctor-who specializes in the area of medicine-is calling on young people to take a basic stool test.
But he says shame and stigma are staying on the road.
“Patients who are diagnosed with colon and rectal cancer are becoming younger and younger,” said Marku, who recently launched the surgeon, an app that acts as a social media platform for surgeons to exchange skills and advice with each other.
“I am seeing patients among their 20s with aggressive cancer.
“As a surgeon, it is heartfelt to testify because it is 100% preventable. But people are too ashamed to talk to their doctor about their intestinal movements or the color of their excrement.
“I would love a patient with a simple excrement or colonoscopy test than to treat them for cancer.”
Soliman that most people live in sedentary lifestyle, exercise less, eat high -processed diet and do not get enough fiber.
“It’s not so far from an extension to link these issues along with increasing colon cancer among young patients,” he said. “
Soliman grew up in Talhassee, Florida, first studying the pharmacy at the Florida A&M University Pharmacy College before being accepted into an accelerated medical school program at the University of Florida.
The father of two is committed to combating colorectal cancer at the source and is campaigning to raise awareness throughout March.
While many people will look for symptoms to see, the surgeon finds that it is often too late after you start noticing them.
“Symptoms of colon cancer, unfortunately, are late,” he said. “These can be changes in intestinal habits, whether in the feeling of constipation growth, a change in the diameter of excrement, or rectal bleeding.
“Sometimes the intense pressure of the rectum can be a type of sign in the late phase of rectum cancer, but all these are very unclear.
“That is why it is so important to take review exams such as colonoscopy or some of the DNA tests or stool tests we can get.”
Soliman, who lives in Orlando, recommends regular exercises, a healthy balanced diet and by cutting smoking to prevent a diagnosis of colon cancer.
He says that to avoid smoked meat that are often high in nitrates and have been linked to an increase in this type of cancer.
“Patients who work out and have a full healthy diet are at lower risk,” he said.
“It is so important to talk about stigma about colonoscopy and preparations. You don’t have to get this cancer. “
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