Colon Cancer Risk In Young Adults Doubles, Rectal Cancer Risk Quadruples

BALTIMORE (WJZ) —While colorectal cancer diagnoses are becoming less frequent in the United States overall, there has been an alarming increase in diagnoses among young adults, according to recent data from the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society.
And compared with adults born around 1950, those born around 1990 have double the risk of colon cancer a