Zak Wilcox backpacked across India when he was 19 years old and died in 2021 after being diagnosed with stomach cancer
A mum has issued a warning to travellers after claiming her son's cancer was caused by a stomach-eating bug. Zak Wilcox backpacked across India when he was 19 years old with his whole life ahead of him.
"The bug bores away into the lining of the stomach for years, sometimes decades, before it becomes fatal. The symptoms of stomach cancer are either non-existent or so mild people pass them off as indigestion until it is too late." However, the UK Health Security Agency say that as H. pylori is an infection present in the UK as well as abroad, there is no current data to suggest that travel is a risk factor for developing infection.
He never made it to the endoscopy as he was already dying. "It was totally devastating," Rebecca said. "Hearing he had cancer hit me in the gut with a baseball bat. I couldn't believe it - he was apparently fit and healthy, had a good diet, and only drank socially. It was terrible." Following his sudden and devastating death on March 9, they fought to have biopsies tested to see if Zak’s cancer was genetic, which they had assumed. It was a nerve-wracking time for the family, terrified that one of them could be next. But a year later, the tests came back negative, with the family having the all-clear in February 2022.
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