The trend toward more colon cancer in younger adults began in the mid-1990s, according to the report published in Gut.The new findings mean that"if you have symptoms consistent with colorectal cancer, you should follow up with a physician no matter what your age is," said coauthor Rebecca Siegel, scientific director of surveillance research at The American Cancer Society.
Siegel and colleagues studied global data looking for clues as to why early onset-colon cancer appeared to be rising in the U.S."And there is a common thread," she said."So now we can point to some clues." From 2008 through 2012, among the 42 countries with high-quality cancer registry data, colon cancer rates among people ages 20 to 49 were lowest in India , Uganda and Chile and highest in Korea , Australia , the U.S. , and Slovakia .
The steepest increases in younger adults were in New Zealand, where the annual average percent change was 4per cent, and in Korea, where it was 4.2per cent.
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