The premise of our company is help our clients prevent cancer, I was attending a conference this week, and we were discussing lung cancer and how to get people to stop smoking and vaping and I told the instructor that I truly believe that we must start focusing our energy on children starting at the age of middle school instead of the age of 65 and 70. She gave a slight grin and acted like I was offending those who were 65 and 70 when I really wasn’t. I told her that my company we help everyone try to prevent and if by chance they receive a diagnosis we’re there to help and support them but the point I was trying to get across to her was that more young adults are being diagnosed with cancer, in particularly colorectal cancer they are being diagnosed younger than they are supposed to be screened for certain cancers. So that brings me to this article I saw that was writing by penn state university.
According to a March 2024 article in Penn State Health News, the American Cancer Society (ACS) expects colon cancer to cause 106,590 new cases and 53,010 deaths in 2024. While overall rates of colorectal cancer are declining, the rate of diagnosis and death is increasing among younger people, especially those in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. In fact, people born between 1981 and 1996 have twice the risk of colorectal cancer as those born in 1950. For men under 50, colorectal cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, and for women in that age group, it’s the second leading cause.
The increase in diagnoses is mainly due to a rise in rectal cancers and cancers in the left side of the colon, near the rectum. Symptoms of colorectal cancer include: Unexplained abdominal pain, Changes in stool, and Rectal bleeding.
For more information about colorectal cancer prevention https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/colon-rectal-cancer.html
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