Colon cancer has risen sharply among people under age 50. In fact, the American Cancer Society reports that in those under 55, colon cancer death rates have been increasing roughly 1 percent each year ...

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In 2025, the American Cancer Society estimates about 154,270 US adults will be diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer — and roughly 52,900 will die from it.

Among the 14,457 patients analyzed, 10,750 (74.4%) had colon cancer and 3,707 (25.6%) had rectal cancer. The diagnostic route was determined for 97.8% of colon cancer cases and 98.1% of rectal ...

An otherwise active, healthy 39-year-old, Marisa Peters was a mother of three boys and still nursing her 16-month-old when she was initially diagnosed with Stage 3 rectal cancer. With colon cancer ...

"For example, only 39% of Black people with early-stage rectal cancer received surgery, compared to 64% of their White counterparts," she said. "Addressing disparities requires improving access to ...

3 Similarly, in 2021, only 47% of Black patients with stage 1 or 2 lung cancer underwent surgery compared with 52% of White patients. The treatment gap was even wider in rectal cancer, with 64% of ...

Nancy You, MD, a professor of colon and rectal surgery at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who was not involved in the research. In the structured exercise group ...