can a person who has nephritis suddenly develope colorectal cancer?
nephew is 26 has had nephritis since he was 10 juvenile then has now followed him to adulthood and he now has polyps some think may be cancerous can you have two diseases at once
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Denisedds (88)
To answer your question, a person who has nephritis can certainly develop colon cancer.
these disease are different, located in different parts of the body and caused by different things. I will admit that I am not so familiar with nephritis (inflammation in a kidney nephrons), and but I believe that it can because by infection, toxins or auto-immune diseases.
because your nephew has had this problem for a number of years, I would GUESS that it would not be caused by toxins. Co-incidentally, CERTAIN toxins would be the only type of thing that may cause cancer. But, I do not know his medical history … so this is just a random guess.
Cancer on the other hand, is a genetic disease. In particular, cancer is caused by damaged DNA. Normall, DNA provides the blueprint and instructions for cells of our body (ie. DNA tells an eye cell to be an eye-cell, and a hair follicle cell to grow "hair")… however, if the instructions (ie. DNA) becomes damaged the cells begin to do things that they wouldn’t normally do. These abnormal looking and functioning cells often grow faster and are invasive … and because they function abnormally, they do not carry out necessary tasks and disrupts normal cellular function required for "life" … and over time, can cause death.
So… nepritis and cancer are caused by two dissimilar processes… and therefore, these diseases have most likely arisen independently of each other.
Please encourage your nephew to see a gastroenterologisst, to have the polyps biopsied, staged … and treated apropriatly. Colon cancer is aggressive and cannot be ignored.
What do you mean “some think may be cancerous”?
All the polyps should have been removed and sent to pathology so there would be no doubt what they are. People often have more than one disease at the same time, but no one develops colon cancer suddenly.