Under-65s Now Make Up Almost Half Of Colon Cancer Cases. GPs Explain How To Lower Your Risk

Medical advice provided by Dr Asiya Maula, private GP at The Health Suite, and Dr Donald Grant, GP and Senior Clinical Advisor at The Independent Pharmacy. 

New research has found that almost half of bowel cancer cases (sometimes called colorectal cancer) occur in under-65s. 

It was not always this way. The paper, published in the American Cancer Society, said that bowel cancer rates have been declining among over-65s since the ’80s, but rising among those under 50.

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