A new programme has been launched to pioneer new ways to prevent, detect, and treat gastrointestinal cancers in the under-50 age group. The five-year collaboration between St James's Hospital, Trinity College Dublin, and the Irish Cancer Society aims to provide clinical and non-clinical supports to meet the specific needs of cancer patients aged 25-50.
Deirdre Fleming on the beach at Portmarnock: 'My cancer is just asleep and I’m now on maintenance chemotherapy to keep it that way for as long as we can.' Photograph: Alan Betson
Across the western world, there has been a marked increase in many types of internal cancers in people aged under 50, according to Prof Maeve Lowery, a professor of translational cancer medicine at Trinity and consultant medical oncologist at St James’s Hospital.‘We were told he had leukaemia . . . I became his full-time nurse, carer, counsellor, you name it’
Patients with new diagnoses also have to reckon with “financial toxicity”, made more difficult as they are likely to be in shock and unfamiliar with navigating the health system. Hiring this kind of expertise is not possible at present due to the recruitment freeze in the HSE, which makes the €4.5 million support from the Irish Cancer Society all the more welcome.
Having been initially diagnosed by her GP with irritable bowel syndrome, she had changed her doctor and pushed for a referral for a colonoscopy.“I went into shock. This was not on my radar. I was just 41 and I had thought it was just a gut infection. Then I said, ‘Just give me a plan and I’ll work on it’.”
GPs need to listen to us more and not dismiss the possibility of cancer in younger patients with suspicious symptoms
Gastrointestinal Cancers Under-50S Prevention Detection Treatment Programme Collaboration St James's Hospital Trinity College Dublin Irish Cancer Society
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