Gallbladder cancer is gradually weaving a gradually expanding “net” among people under 50 years old. Its rising incidence is like an unexpected storm, standing side by side with bowel, breast and lung cancers, which have long been infamous as the “Four Families of Cancer” and wreaking havoc on the territory of health together. Together, they are wreaking havoc on the territory of health.
Experts are focusing on the mysterious “microbial forest” in people's intestinal tract, where trillions of bacteria live, either because of the “fast food culture” in which we consume much ultra-processed food or because of the “fast food culture” in which we eat much ultra-processed food and experience subtle changes. They are undergoing a subtle “ecological change” due to our “fast food culture” of consuming a lot of ultra-processed food as if it is a silent “bacterial revolution”. The moon is a double-edged sword; it gives life a rich experience but also quietly planted the seeds of cancer risk. The shadow of cancer seems to be growing thicker and thicker, with most cancer cases arriving as late “visitors” after the age of 50. This early onset of cancer, clearly defined under the medical microscope as an abnormally high incidence in people under the age of 50, serves as a wake-up call that our health defences are being challenged like never before.
The gallbladder, the “little green orchard” hidden next to the liver, is shaped like a full apple, and it quietly plays an important role in storing bile - a magical “fat decomposer! It is a magical “fat decomposer”.
Behind the phenomenon of rising incidence of early-onset cancers such as gallbladder cancer lies a “health domino effect” triggered by changes in modern lifestyles. Specifically, pollution is the sudden “black storm” which swept our living environment; alcohol is incarnated as an “intoxicating fog”, quietly eroding the health of the embankment; junk food is the “sweet trap Junk food is a “sweet trap”, with its attractive appearance and instant gratification, luring us step by step into the abyss of disease; and the increasingly tense pace of life is like a “taut string”, so that the body and mind can not get enough rest and recovery. These factors interact with each other to produce a chain reaction on our microbiota - the delicate balance of the “internal ecosystem”, like a subtle “bacterial storm”, which in turn This disrupts the body's natural defence mechanisms and increases the risk of cancer. These lifestyle changes have a knock-on effect on the organs involved in the digestive process, from the gallbladder, the “reservoir of bile”, to the colon, the “recycling station for nutrients”, making the colon the “hardest hit” area in terms of the increase in early-onset cancers. “The colon is also the hardest hit area in terms of the increase of early onset cancers.
Interestingly, even though young people, known as the Sensible Generation, drink less alcohol on average than their parents and make healthier dietary choices, their risk of digestive cancers seems to be rising rather than declining, like a river flowing against the current. It's as if fate is playing a joke on them, and one can't help but wonder about the fragility and impermanence of health. Oncologists are frustrated to find that they have very little to offer young people as if they have only a few “fragile straws” in their hands to fight off the raging health crisis. Nevertheless, they have tried to give some advice, eating more fruits and vegetables and avoiding obesity, seemingly simple but vital habits that may become a “strong shield” against cancer.
The difficult road to diagnosis for cancer patients is full of unknowns and challenges every step of the way. At the moment, the culprit behind the rising incidence of cancer is still like a “ghost” hidden in the fog whose true face has not yet been fully revealed. Obesity may be the invisible “heavy shackles”, genetics quietly open the door to the disease, and screening tools, although useful, still leave more puzzling places.
Symptoms of gallbladder cancer are like “emergency signals” sent out by the body: jaundice, which stains the skin and eyes with a “dusk colour”, itching of the skin, like countless “tiny crawlers” crawling under the skin, which is unbearable; changes in the colour of urine and faeces, which indicate internal turmoil of the body. Itchy skin, like countless “tiny crawling insects” crawling under the skin, is intolerable; changes in the colour of urine and faeces indicate internal turmoil in the body. However, even these obvious signals do not change the grim reality faced by gallbladder cancer patients - it is expected that only about one in six patients will be able to “walk through the dark forest” after diagnosis and ultimately usher in a decade of survival.
