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Rectal cancer rates are growing among Millenials and doctors all it a crisis because they don’t know why. They can’t link it to anything hereditary and many of the patients have “zero risk factors.”

“According to the American Cancer Society, 158,850 new colorectal cancers will be diagnosed in 2026. About 55,230 patients will die from the disease, with nearly a third of those deaths in people under age 65. Colon cancer and rectal cancer are similar but form in different parts of the digestive tract.

The new research, which hasn’t yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal, is scheduled to be presented at Digestive Disease Week, an annual meeting of gastroenterologists, in May.

The findings, however, strengthen an American Cancer Society study released in March showing that a rise in rectal cancer rates is driving increases in colorectal cancer diagnoses in people younger than age 65. Colorectal cancer rates have been increasing 3% each year for adults under age 50 since the late 1990s and scientists are scrambling to understand why.

“This is a medical crisis,” Dr. Ben Schlechter, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, said. “This is not something that should be ignored.” Schlechter was not involved with the new study.

Pathiyil’s research used Centers for Disease Control and Prevention death records from 1999 through 2023, specifically for people ages 20 to 44. Deaths from early-onset ”

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“Rectal cancer deaths rising rapidly among millennials: 'It's a medical crisis'”
Erika Edwards
NBC News

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