ACS News Minute: X'ers and Millennials show alarming increase in colorectal cancer rates
537 views · Published 16 March 2017 · 1:19 · Indexed 14 November 2026
Channel: American Cancer Society · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism
A major American Cancer Society study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, shows an alarming increase in rates of colorectal cancer among young and middle-aged adults in the United States. Though colorectal cancer rates in the U.S. have declined since the 1980s, Generation X and millennials have double the risk of colon cancer and quadruple the rate of rectal cancer compared to those born around 1950.
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