Despite an overall decline in rates for colorectal cancer, doctors are seeing a dramatic increase in the disease among young adults.
Researchers at the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute have found that those born in 1990 have double the risk of colon cancer and four times the risk of rectal cancer compared to those born in 1950, CNN reported.
Between 1990 and 2013, the proportion of colorectal cancer in those younger than 55 nearly doubled from about 15 percent to 29 percent. Data also revealed that age-specific colorectal cancer risk for people nowadays has escalated back to the level of those born in the 1890s….