Colorectal cancer deaths shifting toward younger adults, find study

Rates of diagnosis and death from colorectal cancer appear to be shifting to ever younger patients, a new study finds.

These rates appear to be declining among seniors while rising in the young, according to the report in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

The median age at diagnosis dropped from 72 in the late 1980s to 66 in the most recent data from 2015-2016, researchers found.

Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and third leading cause of cancer death in the US.

“The message from this report is that the colorectal cancer