Medical researchers have been tracking the increase in colorectal cancer among younger adultsfor years now, even as the rates in older people decline. As CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook has reported, the decline among patients over 50 is due to the success of colonoscopies, ...
The research adds to evidence of a disturbing, and not yet completely understood, increase in early-onsetcolon cancer. The absolute numbers remain low, but since the 1990s, the rate of colon cancer among Americans younger than 50 has more than doubled, according to the U.S. National ...
The numbers are "alarming," saidDr. Folasade May, a cancer prevention researcher and gastroenterologist at UCLA Health in Los Angeles. She also served on the President's Cancer Panel on Colorectal Cancer in 2021. "Since 1995, there has been a 45% increase in colorectal cancer diagnoses in p...
"Shockingly, 1 in 5 people who will be diagnosed presently are younger than 55 years of age, which is quite young for colorectal cancer," says American Cancer Society CEO Dr. Karen Knudsen. The study showed the increase in ages ranging from 20 to 49, which includes the millennial generation...
“This is a dramatic increase. And the trends are not going away,” said Whitney Jones, a gastroenterologist who founded the Colon Cancer Prevention Project in Louisville and now is a consultant for Grail, the liquid biopsy company. “We need to educate all people around colorectal ca...
For years, colon cancer has been on the rise in younger people for unclear reasons. While cancer deaths in the U.S. are falling overall, a new report from the American Cancer Society highlights how the increase in colon cancer, as well as some other cancers, is threatening to buck that ...
colorectal or dying from it increase with age, and the majority of deaths still are in older people. Even so, the death rate is trending in the right direction for people over 55, with an older person having about half the risk of dying of colorectal cancer in 2023 that they did in ...
However, there’s some bad news. Scientists have recently discovered a rise in colon cancer rates among people under 50. Over the last 40 years, there’s beenup to a 2.4 percentannual increase in the incidence of colon cancer among younger adults. ...
so cancer is not the only possible cause. but demb's group found that bloody stools in people under the age of 50 was linked to a five-fold higher risk for colon cancer, compared to people without this symptom. when symptoms do appear, younger people tend to delay seeki...
Gregg's cancer was detected at stage III, meaning it had spread to nearby lymph nodes. So she had to undergo chemotherapy and radiation to treat it. But even at stage III, colon cancer is often curable, especially in younger adults. Next, she'll have surgery to remove what's left of ...