There has been a 51% increase in colorectal cancer among people under 50 since 1994, according to the ACS. But what's driving the rise in new diagnoses? How researchers are hoping to crack the mystery:
“I think her biggest concern was for her children. She wanted to live to see them. Her goal was to see them through high school,” Kaye says. “But that didn’t happen.”
While colorectal cancer death rates overall were cut in half between 1970 and 2016, the American Cancer Society says there has been a 51% increase in colorectal cancer among those under age 50 since 1994. New cases of colorectal cancer in adults under 55 have increased almost 2% every year since the mid-1990s, and death rates in this age group are also rising, even though colonoscopies are more common.
Because being tested is key to prevention, the American Cancer Society released updated screening guidelines in 2018. The new guidelines say that adults at average risk should first be tested at age 45 -- 5 years younger than the previous recommendations. A 2017 study by ACS researchers found that adults born around 1990 have twice the risk of colon cancer and 4 times the risk of rectal cancer, compared with those born around 1950, who have the lowest risk.
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