Czechs rank no.1 in colon cancer / Cesi jsou s rakovinou tlusteho streva na prvnim miste

Czechs together with Hungarians suffer the most with the  colon-rectal cancer – they are actually currently number one in the world. According to the Czech Gastrointestinal Society the Czechs have this type of cancer actually coded in their genes. How is that possible? The biggest playing factor is their bad eating habits – especially their weakness for very fattening foods – something that has been going on in the Czech Republic for centuries. Unhealthy cooking has been in fact with our culture for so long that it changed the genetic coding of the Czech gene pool altogether  and now we are paying for it (thanks a lot, great-great-great-grandma!). “If all of a sudden the whole Czech society decided to become vegetarian it will still take 2 to 3 generations for the sensitive genome to even out with the genomes of the other nations,” says Miroslav Zavoral, the vice-president of the Czech gastrointestinal society.

Czech male are even at a bigger risk than female, making them the number one colon-rectal cancer victims in the world (Czech women still rank within the first 10 places), meaning that every one of them – who is 50 years old or older – has a 6% chance of getting the colon-rectal cancer. Every year there are 8,000 to 8,500 new cases.The only way how one can stay healthy in this direction is to do stool tests once one turns 50 years old. Even a better diagnoses is via colonoscopy, which can be also ordered by your primary doctor.

My own grandpa died of this disease and I know many other Czechs who were either directly or indirectly effected by it. Therefore it is important to take this seriously and keep up with your preventative exams!

CZ: Cesi spolu s Madary  trpi nejcasteji na svete onemocnenim rakoviny konecniku a tlusteho streva.Podle Ceske gastroenterologicke spolecnosti totiz tuto nemoc mame zakodovanou v genech. Po staleti se do nas kodoval nezdravy zivotni styl spojeny s oblibou tucnych pokrmu a ted na to pry doplacime (no teda, diky moc, pra-,pra-,pra-babicko!). “Kdyby se cela nase spolecnost ted rozhodla, ze se stane vegetarianskou, i tak to potrva 2 az 3 generace, nez se takzvany sensitivni genom da na uroven ostatnich narodu,” konstatoval Miroslav Zavoral, mistopredseda Ceske gastroenterelogicke spolecnosti.

Cesti muzi jsou v tomto druhu rakoviny prvni na svete, zatimco zeny jsou v prvni desitce. Kazdy Cech ktery je starsi nez 50 let ma 6% riziko, ze touto rakovinou onemocni. Za rok ji lekari zjisti u 8000 az 8500 pacientu.

Jedinymi zpusobem jak se podle ceskych lekaru da teto rakovine ucinne predchazet je pomoci preventivniho vysetreni. Kazdy si u doktora muze vyzvednout test na pritomnost krve ve stolic, muze take zazadat o jistejsi kolonoskopicke vysetreni.

Muj deda umrel na rakovinu tlusteho streva a znam mnoho dalsich Cechu, kteri touto nemoci byli postizeni – at primo nebo skrze jejich rodinu a pratele. Je tedy velmi dulezite, aby si na tu preventivni peci clovek dusledne dohlizel.

Source: http://magazin.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/nachylnost-k-rakovine-streva-a-konecniku-maji-cesi-v-genech/401731