Rates of metastatic colorectal adenocarcinomas are increasing fastest among people 20 to 54 years of age in the United States, most notably in people under age 40, according to a new study. The rise is especially steep among younger Hispanic and Black people.
“There is a direct relationship between decreasing age and increasing risk of distant-stage colorectal cancer,” said the study’s senior investigator Jordan Karlitz, MD, the chief of gastroenterology at Denver Health