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I have heard of there having been earlier studies that have linked iron intake with colon cancer growth, and I have personal reason to believe them. I have Lyn
by Findecanor 2y ago
I have heard of there having been earlier studies that have linked iron intake with colon cancer growth, and I have personal reason to believe them.
I have Lynch syndrome: a hereditary cell mutation which increases risk of colon cancer. Patients like me get a colonoscopy every eighteen months or so only to remove polyps. For a decade I had not had a single polyp to remove.
Then in 2022, I got another cancer which gave me blood deficiency (low hemoglobin levels), and just to keep myself alive I took strong iron supplements for months.
It did of course also stress my immune system.
I got colon cancer in record time, which surprised also my doctors.
It grew from no visible polyp (my last colonoscopy) to two inches in nine months, and in-between that I had an X-ray that also showed nothing (but which can't detect tumors small enough).