A bodybuilder who was told that she turned 40 after her bowel cancer missing, before she could die, she has said that the age of screening should be reduced for the disease.
In 2022, Matt Dean, then 39, worked hard for a bodybuilding show, but behind the image of perfection, he was severely unhealthy.
Matt said to Bridnda, “I looked great, I liked it very much at that time. But I knew that I had a cancer tumor that was going to try and kill me.”
After spreading in his bladder and liver of cancer, there have been many mats of mats, but he said he was “lucky”, “he was here to tell the story”. The Welsh government said that it followed the national guidance at the screening.
Ashli BThe symptoms of MAT started a year ago when he had sporadic, severe abdominal pain and used to find some blood when he was in the toilet.
He was examined by a GP, who said that it was probably due to a small tear due to lifting weight and sent him home.
By next year, the symptoms came back and when he lost a stone, while on an all-top-top holiday, it was the trigger to re-examine.
“I read on intestinal conditions – these things can be like Crohn, IBS, a list of things and cancer is on your list, but not at the age of 39” Matt said.
This time Matt, who was a landscape gardener before his illness, meant that he could no longer work, was sent for a scan, which quickly revealed a large tumor in his bowel that spread to his liver too.
Mats dean“I cried when I was told for the first time and then I just sat there as if ‘it’s really happening’?”
Holi was one of the most difficult moments to tell your partner, who was at home with his five -month -old daughter Willow when she got a diagnosis.
Holi said, “Initially I think I was in denial, I did not know anyone, I did not want it to be gossip.”
“Anger I felt too – it was really an affair with a new child.”
Mats deanThe initial surgery of the mat had to change as the cancer had spread to its bladder.
By February 2023 they had to undergo a second, major surgery to remove the tumor and their bladder, left them with two stoma bags, one was connected to their bowel and one to their bladder.
“I was in the world of injury and I never saw so many tubes and machines throughout my life. I did not even know that the human body could handle so many things but it kept me alive.”
Mats deanEarlier this year, he underwent surgery to reverse his bowel -linked Stoma Bag, but other relics, some mats that he struggled, especially on a recent holiday where people were sitting as a pool.
“I always had a boy with top in the garden – my size is quite proud. It took me a long time to take off my top and expose them.
“But this is the card that has dealt me, I have learned to be with it. The bag is a part of me.”
Mats deanThe latest data of public health Wales suggests that 241 under -54s were detected in bowel cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, in 2021, out of a total of 2,654 at all ages.
A Report in a medical journal At the end of last year, it was found that the rates were increasing in small people – some mats of Matt, Martin Evans of Swanasi Bay Health Board.
“I have now been an advisor for nearly 13 years and when I look back for my training I have to say that it was rare to see patients under 50 with colorectal cancer.
“There is an incident around the world that colorectal cancer is becoming more common in the 50s.
“This is a phenomenon that we do not really understand, but this is a worrying concern because what we know is that when the patients who are small, they are often introduced in a later stage of the disease compared to those who grow up.”
Matt, who was removed their liver, has been canceled for two years and will be closely monitored for the next three.
But he is now looking for a future after proposing Holi and planning a wedding in 2027.
Matt said, “Nobody should not know what I am doing if they just keep a check on their health and their intestines – it can be easily remembered,” Matt said.
“I would have died within the year if they do nothing … then the idea of being able to get a test first that is easily available, I think it is important.”
In Wales, everyone automatically receives home bowl screening tests.
Welsh Sarkar said: “We follow the independent, expert advice of the UK National Screening Committee who recommends regular bowel screening for men and women between the ages of 50 and 74.”
