Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month: What to Know about the Rise of Colorectal Cancer in Younger Adults [Video]

Newswise — CHICAGO: Rates of colorectal cancer have been rising consistently in younger adults — a trend that concerns surgeons and other medical professionals at the forefront of treating the disease.

“We’ve been noticing an alarming rise in colorectal cancer in adults under the age of 50. In fact, people born in the 1990s are two times more likely than people born in the 1950s to develop colorectal cancer,” said James T. McCormick, DO, FACS, FASCRS, a colorectal surgeon and American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) State Chair of the Pennsylvania chapter. “And that’s remarkably striking. We’re not quite sure why that’s happening or how to screen for it at such a young age. That’s the conundrum.”

For Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month this March, experts with the American College of Surgeons are available for interviews to share insights about the rise of colorectal cancer in younger adults and what steps people …