A 38-year-old man Cambridgeshire, Englanddied eight weeks after they will detect cancer stage 4 rectal with metastasis, including liver involvement. At first he felt pain in his back, but over time the pain intensified and he had to seek medical help.
At the end of July, Steve Burrows He began to feel pain in his lower back. To relieve the pain, she started yoga. However, his discomfort persisted and intensified, to the point that «couldn’t move»According to his ex-partner, Bethan Kester.
Despite being only 38 years old, Burrows «made jokes all the time about getting older». She told her children – Briannah, Lilly, Jaiden and Aleah – not to worry, «it’s just old age.» «He was kneeling on the floor hugging the couch, stretching because he thought it was sciatica,» Kester recalled in conversation with the Daily Mail.
As a child, Burrow was diagnosed with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP), an inherited syndrome that causes hundreds or thousands of precancerous polyps in the colon. Photo: Facebook/Bethan Kester.As a child, Burrow was diagnosed with Familiar Adenomatous Polyposis (PAF)an inherited syndrome that causes hundreds or thousands of precancerous polyps in the colon, increasing the risk of developing colorectal cancer by 100 percent if it is not treated.
At age 13, he underwent surgery to remove part of his rectum. That is why when he was diagnosed with stage 4 rectal cancer with metastases «it was a massive shock» for your entire family.
«It started out as something seemingly innocent like back pain, so I would never assume this would be the result. The back pain turned out to be tumors that pressed on your nerves«Kester explained.
Burrows «made jokes all the time about getting older.» She told her children – Briannah, Lilly, Jaiden and Aleah – not to worry, «it’s just old age.» Photo: GoFundMe.He recalled that when Burrows received the diagnosis «I was devastated.» That August 28, he called her by phone to tell her the news: «I was crying my eyes out, I was really scared.«, he said.
«Once the initial diagnosis had sunk in, I was very like, ‘I’m going to fight this and we’re going to do this,'» Kester added. However, The diagnosis was more serious than I thought.: «Once they said it was in his liver, I knew it was serious and he would take it, but we had no idea how soon,» he said.
Burrows and Kester had been together for almost five years and, despite breaking up, she says they remained best friends. «We saw each other every day and he has been a big part of our family,» she said.
The Steve Burrows story: from back pain to terminal diagnosis
After his condition rapidly deteriorated, he was taken to a hospital and died on September 27just two months after experiencing pain for the first time.
Steve Burrows died on September 27, just two months after first experiencing pain. Photo: Facebook/Bethan Kester.«It devastated his entire body before anyone could assimilate it, and took us all by surprise.«said Kester, who started a fundraiser on the site GoFundMe to cover funeral costs and give him «the proper send-off he deserves.»
Now Kester encourages others to get routine checkups to detect this type of cancer in time. «Even if it’s nothing, you better go and get it checked out to find out it’s nothing. If you’re not comfortable with it being nothing, push for a second opinion,» he said.
As reported Daily Mailit is estimated that More than 42,000 Britons are diagnosed with bowel cancer and 17,400 die each year. In the past three decades, the disease has increased 50 percent among people under 50 years of age.
