The thrifty old couple were diagnosed with rectal cancer one after another. (Image/reproduced from Pexels)
Frugality is a good thing, but being overly frugal can lead to the opposite. At the Colorectal Surgery Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Mainland China, a couple underwent rectal cancer surgery one after another. The cause of intestinal cancer is closely related to their living habits. It turned out that the couple lived a frugal life and often ate leftover rice and pickled vegetables. The heavy taste caused both of them to suffer from cancer.
“Qianjiang Evening News” reported that 73-year-old Agui (all pseudonyms below) and 78-year-old Alen are from Hangzhou. In their early years, they sold fruits and vegetables in the wet market. Now they hand over the stall to their son and spend time at home raising their grandchildren. More than a year ago, Agui’s hemorrhoids worsened. Not only did her stool become thinner and there was blood in her stool, but her bowel movements were also very irregular and constipation occurred from time to time. She originally thought it was the root cause of the disease caused by sitting for a long time while selling vegetables, but she didn’t take it to heart.
Unexpectedly, Agui’s symptoms suddenly worsened in June 2022. She suffered from abdominal pain and distension for several months, and then she could hardly pass stool. Finally she couldn’t bear it any longer, so she went to the headquarters of Zhejiang University First Hospital for a colonoscopy. It turned out to be rectal cancer. After receiving the diagnosis, Liu Fanlong, deputy director of the Colorectal Surgery Department, performed a laparoscopic radical surgery for rectal cancer. He removed a tumor with a diameter of more than 5cm and the size of a billiard ball in the lower rectum, and made a temporary enterostomy.
At that time, Chief Physician Liu Fanlong suggested that A Gui’s husband get a screening, but A Lun didn’t take it to heart. In November 2023, Allen drank with old friends for several days in a row, and accidentally drank and suffered stomach bleeding. He went to a nearby hospital for a gastrointestinal endoscopy. Unexpectedly, a mass of about 3cm in diameter was found 30cm away from the anal opening. He was subsequently diagnosed with colon cancer. Fortunately, the operation went smoothly and he was discharged safely.
The old couple were diagnosed with bowel cancer one after another. After the operation, Allen expressed his doubts to the experts, “Can cancer be contagious?” This is not the first time Liu Fanlong has received a diagnosis of “couples’ bowel cancer”, although Colon cancer is not contagious, nor is it inherited between couples. The problem mostly lies in living habits, and after years of adjustment, the living habits of couples are often very close. If one party has bad living habits that may cause cancer, it is easy to subtly affect the other party.
Experts further learned that A Gui and A Lun were very frugal and ate very simply. They basically cooked one meal a day. They would cook more at noon and reheat the rest at night. They are reluctant to throw away the unfinished vegetables, and sometimes fry them together with the fresh vegetables. Moreover, the couple still have strong tastes. They usually like to eat pickled meat, sauce duck, braised duck, and salted fish. wait.
Although they are selling vegetables, the couple is reluctant to eat fresh vegetables. Whatever they can’t sell will be made into pickles. For many years, breakfast has been pickles with white porridge; and since giving the vegetable stall to his son, Allen basically I have to drink more than a pound of soju every night before I go to bed. Doctors explain that the content of nitrite in pickles and overnight meals is high. After excessive nitrite enters the human body, it will combine with amines, the decomposition products of proteins, in the mouth, stomach and intestines to form level 1 carcinogens nitrosamines. It has a high risk of causing esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, intestinal cancer, etc.
Rectal cancer is not only a highly hereditary cancer, but also a lifestyle disease. Not only eating habits, long-term irregular living, sedentary and inactive, obesity, long-term constipation or chronic diarrhea, a history of chronic enteritis and intestinal polyps, and greater mental stress will also increase the risk of bowel cancer. On the advice of experts, Allen and Agui’s son also went for a colonoscopy. Fortunately, no abnormalities were found.
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2024-01-21 11:55:23
