The emails, so many of them heartbreaking, have been flooding our inboxes. Mostly they’re from young people – in their 30s or early 40s – who have been diagnosed with bowel . There have been hundreds – and many told stories that were strikingly similar.They’d ignored their symptoms – blood in their stools, or stomach pain – or, worse, had them dismissed by GPs because they were ‘too young’ to have this awful disease. Other emails came from grieving parents who’d watched their children die from bowel cancer after a diagnosis came too late.But what they all had in common was a need for an answer – to understand why this cruel disease, which is overwhelmingly diagnosed in the elderly, has started affecting an increasing number of young, fit and otherwise healthy adults. The statistics are stark: cases of bowel cancer are rising twice as fast in the under-50s compared with older adults – and not just in the UK, but around the world.
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