Emirati woman beats colon cancer at the young age of 26
A young Emirati woman beat colon cancer after doctors in Abu Dhabi removed a small part of her intestine. Bedoor Jassem, 26, said she had been suffering from abdominal pain for a few years. When the pain became unbearable she went to Sheikh Shkhabout Medical City (SSMC) in Abu Dhabi for a check-up and was told to get her appendix removed. During the appendix surgery in 2019, doctors discovered that she had colon cancer. In the past, colon cancer was called an old person’s disease but more and more young people are getting it now. “Cancer does not respect age. Unfortunately, we are seeing patients in their 20s and 30s with the disease,” said Dr Noura Al Ali, a colorectal surgeon at Sheikh Shkhabout Medical City. “Bedoor was lucky. We took her for an appendectomy (the surgery to remove the appendix when it is infected) and once the appendix was removed we discovered that there was a tumour." "Luckily the tumour did not spread and was in its earliest stages. Apart from robotic ...