- New data from the American Cancer Society shows that colorectal cancer deaths have continued to increase.
- Meanwhile, overall cancer deaths have decreased in the United States.
- Colon cancer is now the leading cause of cancer death in men under the age of 50 and second in women under 50 in the U.S.
The American Cancer Society recently released its
While the report shows that overall cancer deaths have continued to decline in the United States, some specific cancers — mainly colorectal cancer — have been seeing an increase in cancer deaths.
New data shows that colorectal cancer — also known as colon cancer — is now the leading cause of cancer death in men under the age of 50 and second in women under 50 in the U.S.
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“But it is also because of increasing colorectal cancer incidence in people born after the 1950s for reasons that are currently under investigation by many researchers but may include increased obesity, changes in diet and/or the gut microbiome including highly processed food consumption, a more sedentary lifestyle, overuse of antibiotics, and even gut exposure to microplastics, etc.,” Siegal told Medical News Today.
“The rise in colorectal cancer in people under 50 is the same in men and women, strongly suggesting the cause is not hormonal or endogenous, but due to external environmental or behavioral changes,” she added.
Dr. Anton Bilchik, surgical oncologist, Chief of Medicine, and director of the Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Program at Saint John’s Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, CA — who was not involved in this study — said…
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