"We know rates are increasing in young people, but it's alarming to see how rapidly the whole patient population is shifting younger, despite shrinking numbers in the overall population," Rebecca Siegel, senior scientific director at the American Cancer Society, and lead author of a report published in 2023, said in a press release.
The trend toward more advanced disease in people of all ages is also surprising and should motivate everyone 45 and older to get screened."
The researchers also found that more people are being diagnosed with late stages of the disease; 60% of cases were found to have spread to other regions of the body in 2019, up from 52% in the mid-2000s.
His death was a pivotal moment in raising awareness of the rising number of younger people receiving a colorectal cancer diagnosis.
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