Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer deaths among people younger than 50 in the United States, according to a ...

Many young people aren't being screened, meaning the disease is often found late, when it's harder to treat.

Deaths from the disease are rising while U.S. cancer mortality overall is declining and 70% of Americans survive their ...

Colorectal cancer has since jumped up from being the fifth-leading cancer death in the early 1990s.

Colorectal cancer was the leading cause of cancer death among young people in 2023, according to the American Cancer Society.

It's the top cause of cancer death for men and women combined, a new study says.

The rate of young people dying from cancer is dropping across the United States, according to a recent study from the ...

New research pinpoints exactly how much alcohol is linked to an increased colon cancer risk ...

Colon cancer is one of the most preventable cancers in the United States, but each year it claims more than 50,000 lives – in part because early symptoms can be mild and easily missed. “Colon cancer ...

The disease steadily has been killing more Americans under 50 for years as the mortality rates for other cancers have fallen, ...

The researchers examined the five leading causes of cancer death among the under-50 age group. They found that overall, from 1990 through 2023, more than 1.2 million people died of cancer in the ...

A new report found that colorectal cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer, including breast and lung cancers ...