Is Colorectal Cancer Only For Over 50?

The prevailing belief about colon cancer has been predominantly a disease of those over 50. Dr. Robert Ashley, an internist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, has given more information concerning this much-feared disease. Data has been warning for several years of a rise in colon cancers diagnosed before the age of 50. JAMA Surgery looked at colorectal cancer data from nine states between 1975 and 2010 in a 2015 study. The overall rate of colon cancer decreased during that time but only because the rate of colon cancer after …read more