Cancer does not discriminate, even teenagers. The call of 30-year-old Canadian Jordan Turko, who started to show strange symptoms, said, “Take care of your health,” and when he went to the doctor, they gave bad news that he had cancer.

This is his story.

At the beginning of 2022, her voice began to hoarse and she complained of back pain, especially in the lumbar region.but since he’s always been very healthy, he didn’t pay much attention to the symptoms: he loves yoga and exercises six days a week.

According to him, he probably caught covid-19 and thought it would pass in a few days, but it didn’t. After both ailments persisted, she decided to go to an outpatient clinic where she had several tests.

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Lung cancer

According to his statement to the American media Today, In April, she received an unexpected diagnosis: stage four lung cancer. In addition to several tumors growing along his spine, he had a four-inch tumor surrounding his pulmonary artery.

“Who would have guessed that? Even now, looking back, who would say, ‘Oh, your back hurts.’ You have lung cancer. Doctors think the tumor actually started in January, which was crazy. Within a few months, it grew four inches and spread throughout the body,” he said.

Are these symptoms normal in cancer patients?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States Government The most common symptoms in patients with lung cancer are: persistent or worsening cough, chest pain, shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing up blood, feeling constantly tired and unexplained weight loss.

However, the symptoms vary depending on each person’s organism, and as a result of the disease there may be other repercussions in the body: for example, a hoarse voice.

A pulmonologist at System, Dr. “This is because the cancer actually affects or invades the recurrent laryngeal nerve, which descends into the chest cavity, under the aortic arch, and back into the larynx,” MeiLan Han told Today. from the University of Michigan Department of Health and author of the book Breathing Lessons: A Doctor’s Guide to Lung Health.

What is unusual is that this disease occurs in people under the age of 65. More or less, only 1.4% of lung cancers occur in this populationAccording to a study by the American Cancer Society.

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