I have an urgent warning to others after I went to the doctor for a stomach ache but left with a deadly diagnosis

Being a nonsmoker,  nondrinker and reasonably progressive person, cancer wasn't on Brandon Arbini's radar. 

So erstwhile the past 41-year-old went to the doc with mild tummy pain, helium was shocked to observe helium had signifier 4 colon cancer. 

The tech entrepreneur from California, who sold 1 of his startups for $30 million, told DailyMail.com that 'there weren't immoderate wide informing signs' and helium had nary past of crab successful his family.

'Even the beingness of tiny amounts of humor successful my stool didn't rise large concerns,' the father-of-three added. 

However, erstwhile Mr Arbini's  doc scheduled a colonoscopy to analyse what the tummy symptom could be, they could not implicit the process arsenic the tumor successful his colon was truthful large. 

He says his biggest connection to others is to question aesculapian help, adjacent if the slightest happening feels off. 

'Cancer wasn't connected my radar, but I promote you to enactment it connected yours,' helium urges. 

'The champion mode to halt crab is to forestall it from occurring successful the archetypal place. 

'If you've been putting disconnected going to your doc oregon you don't privation to get your colonoscopy, delight retrieve my story. 

'Trust your gut if thing doesn't consciousness right. Get your crab screenings. 

'Encourage your household and friends to get their screenings excessively and bash everything they tin to little their crab risk.

'I'm grateful to beryllium looking guardant to celebrating much wedding anniversaries with my woman Jill, seeing my children turn up, and enjoying much tomorrows with my household and friends.' 

When Mr Abini went for his archetypal screening they recovered that the crab had dispersed to his liver and lymph nodes.

Following the discovery, helium was admitted to City of Hope Orange County - 1 of the world's starring crab centers - wherever helium underwent a 10-hour surgery. 

During the procedure, medics removed a foot-long information of  his ample intestine, much than 20 lymph nodes and 25 percent of his liver.

Then Mr Arbini nether went 12 rounds of chemotherapy and amazingly, successful conscionable six months, helium achieved remission. 

He says this portion of his crab communicative inactive brings him to his knees, arsenic helium feared the worst aft his daze diagnosis. 

Now 3 years on, 44-year-old Mr Arbini is keen to stock his communicative to assistance rise consciousness and to 'inspire others to instrumentality attraction of themselves and each other.'

Dr Pashtoon Kasi, aesculapian manager of gastrointestinal aesculapian oncology astatine City of Hope Orange County, told DailyMail.com that unfortunately, stories similar Mr Arbini's are connected the rise. 

He says vulnerability to toxins and dietary and manner habits whitethorn make conditions that power crab improvement astatine an earlier stage. 

Meanwhile, determination person been immoderate studies looking astatine antibiotic vulnerability successful puerility and aboriginal improvement of colorectal cancer. 

In a bid to curb rising crab rates among young people, Dr Kasi says 'education is vital.'

He concludes: 'Younger adults request to recognize the symptoms and prioritize screening, which helps observe cancers astatine their earliest, astir treatable stages.

'Community physicians indispensable besides enactment informed astir these trends and proactively bid the indispensable tests oregon workup if symptoms persist.

'Lifestyle changes are arsenic important. Regular exercise, a steadfast diet, reducing intoxicant consumption, not smoking, and avoiding ultra-processed foods are each tangible indispensable steps till we get a amended knowing of what other is contributing.

In addition, continued concern successful crab probe is crucial. Groundbreaking diagnostics and treatments are emerging from starring crab institutions similar City of Hope.

'These see simplified humor tests called liquid biopsies for crab screening, immunotherapies for lung, colon, and bosom cancers, and innovative studies specified arsenic linking the microbiome to crab prevention.

'By addressing each these preventive and attraction factors, it is imaginable that the inclination successful young big cancers tin beryllium slowed down.'

The US has the sixth highest complaint of early-onset cancers - 87 cases per 100,000 radical - and colon crab is among the fastest rising.

Diagnoses among radical nether 50 years old, which are classified arsenic early-onset, are expected to emergence by 90 percent successful radical 20 to 34 years aged from 2010 to 2030.

The five-year endurance complaint for colon crab is 64 percent, but that drops to 14 percent if the crab has spread, which commonly occurs successful early-onset cases due to the fact that symptoms are often not contiguous oregon are misdiagnosed until the crab has dispersed passim the body.

Symptoms see changes successful bath habits, humor successful stool, weakness, fatigue, nausea, nonaccomplishment of appetite, a lump successful the abdomen oregon rectum, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, constipation and vomiting.