Search for: [Abstract = "Gastrointestinal cancer by The World Health Organization poses a serious threat to public health. The latest data from the National Cancer Registry from 2015 show that over 30,000 Poles have fallen ill with this type of cancer, including as many as 18,500 with colorectal cancer. The main reason for the increase in the incidence of gastrointestinal cancers is the progressive aging of the population. This disease mainly affects older people. However, it may be disturbing that gastrointestinal cancers, especially colorectal cancer, are also beginning to affect young people. According to the American Cancer Society, in 1995\-2013, the incidence of this type of cancer in people aged under 50 increased by 22% in the USA. Other predisposing factors, such as diet, limited physical activity, environmental pollution and smoking are also important. There are also reports on the important role of intestinal microbiome in the development of gastrointestinal cancers. Other gastrointestinal cancers are less common than colorectal cancer, but they have a significantly higher mortality rate. This is the case with pancreatic cancer. Currently, in the case of such neoplastic lesions, only surgical intervention at a specific stage of the disease is a treatment that can provide a chance of survival. Unfortunately, among the group of patients who have extensive metastases or advanced cancer progressi"]
