More Young Adults Getting Colorectal Cancer, Dying From It

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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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How many people have human wasting disease?

reddit_AMA Cancer can come at any age. My sister-in-law's youngest sister died when she was 24 after the cancer spread from her colon throughout her body & to her brain

The type of food ?

As a home cook and shopping for many years, the increase in, over processed, GMO and tampering with foods in laboratory (impossible burger😲🙀) is the cause ! Lesson 1, in Home Economics class was LET THE BUYER BEWARE 🤑🤠👺🤷‍♀️👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

🚩It’s th new tonsils & adenoid, appendix, hysterectomy SCENARIO of fanatical butchering. It’s th Fishing Nets picking up access t shitloads of B/S lies. Where’s their current (sales) claims of supposedly Cancer Cures ?..with billions of dollars supposely going to research

The increase in consumption of processed red Meat ...

Thank you for mentioning LynchSyndrome it affects 1 in 279 people and only 5% are diagnosed. I was 28 at first diagnosis of colon cancer in 1995.

Painful concepts. I am not sure about invasive testing not causing more problems. I am guessing no one would know the way our MD system operates. I am glad that we are now accepting less invasive testing like Cologuard (? sp). I hope that it proves to be extremely successful.

Fast food

My prediction, they find it. But before they could publish it, some 'associates' from Monsanto show up with a briefcase full of 100s and the results of the investigation get swept under the rug.

Fecal occult tests, and fast food.

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