The study, published Wednesday in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, tracked increases in incidences of early-onset colorectal adenocarcinoma, specifically cases which had already progressed to a late stage of the cancer, reported in the U.S. between 2000 and 2016.
This means that while there was a 48-per-cent increase from 2000 to 2016 in the incidence rate of rectal-only distant-stage adenocarcinoma in patients 30-39 years of age, there was a 133-per-cent increase in the same cancer in patients aged 20-29 years in that same time period. And the largest increase of cancer incidence were among Hispanic people and Black people, with incidence rates more than doubling for some types of colorectal cancers.
Many previous studies have looked at early-onset incidence rates of colorectal adenocarcinoma alongside carcinoid tumours, which are a type of similar cancer that grows much slower. Because of that, Karlitz said that previous studies may have downplayed cancer results that were farther along in the stage of disease.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announced in May 2021 that they were recommending that screening now start at 45 years of age for colorectal cancer, instead of at 50.
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