Health.com - Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in adults younger than 50, according to a report published Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Since 1990, overall cancer deaths among this age group have decreased, but colorectal cancer (of the colon or rectum) has been an outlier, with mortality increasing every year.1
“It’s really startling and really disappointing and scary,” Melissa Lumish, MD, an assistant professor at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, told Health. “At the same time, it’s not totally shocking to me because we know that this has been a disease on the rise in people under age 50.
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