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 Medical Center and an associate professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, in Aurora.