March is Colorectal Most cancers Consciousness Month, and docs are urging individuals a lot youthful than typical colorectal most cancers to concentrate on the signs. For causes that scientists say are nonetheless unclear, the speed of colorectal most cancers in individuals beneath 50 has been steadily rising for round 30 years, the New York Instances experiences. “It is sadly changing into a much bigger downside yearly,” says Michael Cecchini on the Middle for Gastrointestinal Cancers. Whereas older sufferers are nonetheless extra more likely to be identified with the illness, colorectal most cancers is now the main reason behind most cancers demise in males beneath 50. Amongst ladies in the identical age group, it’s second solely to breast most cancers. Some stunning statistics. Cecchini says early-onset colorectal most cancers instances have been going up round 2% per 12 months for the reason that mid-Nineteen Nineties. Researchers estimate that individuals born round 1990 have double the danger of colon most cancers in comparison with individuals within the Nineteen Fifties, and 4 instances the danger of rectal most cancers.