Colorectal cancer rates rising among young adults [Video]

CLEVELAND (WJW) — Nearly a year ago, John Johnson of Westlake was the epitome of health, eating the right foods and staying active, completing the 2023 Cleveland marathon in less than three hours.

But just a few weeks later, the young father of two would receive a life-altering diagnoses, after noticing blood in his stool.

“As it kept on showing up, I knew it wasn’t normal,” he said. “I also thought it may have been due to the training that I was doing, it was pretty intense. So maybe it was a ruptured hemorrhoid or something like that.”

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A colonoscopy would reveal a tumor, Johnson had stage two colon cancer.

“I was immediately thinking about my wife, how she would respond to her husband, her partner having cancer,” he said.

Being diagnosed at the age of 35 here at the Cleveland Clinic, Johnson is among the rising …