Sorry for your loss OP.
In the long term eating less red or processed meat substantially reduces your risk of bowel cancer. 4/10 men eat more than the recommended amount.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Goodfood/Pages/red-meat.aspx
SACN concluded that eating a lot of red and processed meat probably increases risk of bowel cancer
After countless visits to the GP and hospital he was given some anti inflammatories and told to rest.
It was only after my dad kept on at the GP did they finally get him in for a colonoscopy.
:but as you have highlighted you can repeatedly visit a GP and be fobbed off with painkillers. I am currently in that boat
If in doubt check it out and be stubborn and persistant if you genuinely believe there is something wrong - Doctors will always fob you off initially
be firm with your GP..don't let them fob you off.
This annoys me so much, I have been to the GP almost a dozen times for unrelated issues, but whilst there I mention I've been having the most intense pain I've ever had, debilitating to the point of not being able to do anything at all except clench up my entire body trying not to scream. It's bowel related due to it happening about 40mins before one, but lately it's been happening days before a movement. I've had it for about 3 years, the latter part only started happening this month.
Do they bat an eyelid? Do they ****.
Damned if you try early, double damned when you don't.
My dads was diagnosed with prostate cancer a few months ago and NHS don't seem to do much if your a man with cancerIt is somewhat hit and miss with the NHS. Although I'm going back 10 years, I still find the situation odd.
My father in law had cancer of the nose and throat. He had extensive treatment in Hong Kong and eventually returned to the UK with the cancer cleared. He had monthly checks via an NHS hospital and the results were clear for 4 months. His last appointment was on a Monday at which there was no sign of any tumor. That Wednesday he had a nosebleed that would not stop. He was then told that he had a golf ball sized tumour. From nothing to that in three days! He died 6 weeks later and the NHS were a disaster in that process as well.
My wife, my children and I have all had great care.
I agree it is important, but as you have highlighted you can repeatedly visit a GP and be fobbed off with painkillers.
Sorry to read this.
I agree it is important, but as you have highlighted you can repeatedly visit a GP and be fobbed off with painkillers. I am currently in that boat - been going back for loose bowel movements and lower back pain. My doctor says it isn't anything serious, have some painkillers. They did some blood tests in November. Thats it. That is as far as I have got since then.
Well, what about a CT or an ultrasound or any other further testing? I am so fed up with my local practice that I am considering going to a private GP and paying for further testing myself
It's pretty marginal, to be honest. I heard the difference in eating something like 4 rashers of bacon a day, compared with none, was an increase from bowel cancer odds of 3 in 100, to 4 in 100.
So eat tonnes of bacon every day, and you'll have a 1 in 100 chance of getting bowel cancer you would have otherwise avoided.
(p. 382)The evidence that red meat, and particularly processed meat, is a cause of colorectal cancer is stronger now than it was in the mid-1990s. The evidence that red meat is a cause of colorectal cancer is convincing. The evidence that processed meat is a cause of colorectal cancer is also convincing.
Your numbers are way off. A bit further down the page it says 1 in 20 people will develop bowel cancer in their lifetime.
From the WCRF:
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