Younger adults have sharpest increase in metastatic colorectal cancer

Cancer is generally a disease of the aging, but doctors are seeing more cases of early-onset colorectal cancer, and the sharpest increase in metastatic, early-onset colorectal cancer is among people 20 to 39 years old, especially Black and Hispanic individuals, according to a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).