Darmkrebs nimmt bei jüngeren Erwachsenen zu, da in Kanada zunehmend ein niedrigeres Screening-Alter gefordert wird

>According to the Canadian Cancer Society, people under 50 in Canada have the likelihood of a diagnosis up to 2.5 times higher than previous generations of the same age.
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>In an interview with CTV Your Morning Thursday, Dr. Enrique Sanz Garcia, a medical oncologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, said the increase can be linked to several factors, including diet, sedentarism — a type of lifestyle characterized by prolonged, habitual inactivity — and alcohol intake, all of which changes the gut microbiome and impacts bowels.
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>Several groups, including the Canadian Cancer Society, are urging policymakers to lower the recommended screening age from 50 to 45, citing a growing body of evidence that more cases are being diagnosed earlier in life.
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>“Colorectal cancer is the fourth-most commonly diagnosed cancer in Canada and the second-leading cause of cancer-related death among Canadians, behind lung cancer,” the charity’s website outlined.

Advocate for yourself and demand a colonoscopy. Pretend you have IBS if you have to. Tell your doctor you can’t stop pooping, and it’ll lead to a colonoscopy.

Although this is extremely important and screening age should be lowered like in other countries, here are a few facts. Unfortunately, this exact same news headline was trending two weeks ago and it seems to be doing well in selling, especially amongst the 20-30 year old folks who are the main consumers of Reddit. Which also increases fear for many of these folks.

Albeit it is important, the study should still highlight the important things such as that lowring the screening age from 50 to 45 is important as the vast increase in diagnosis is happening in people in their mid 40s.

Folks under 40 are proportionally more likely to get into a car accident or get hit by lightning than get colon cancer.

Many of the symptoms of colon cancer are also synonymous with hemahorids and fissures. You won’t see the 97% of young people who had rectal bleeding and got their scope done only to find out they had a fissure post about it. The media will sell you the unfortunate story that scares people, and hence gets them views and clicks.

Incidences of colon cancer in 20-29 year olds is basically 4 out of every 100K in North America. The numbers are staggering low. The rates increase in the 40s.

When you look at differential diagnosis, family history, Lynch syndrome, ethnicity(black people are more likely to get colon cancer so are Caucasians but lower), age, health are important.

It’s an unfortunate disease but the media does need to tone it down by a few levels.

For reference also, since I only have stats for 20-29 year olds here are other cancers which have a higher incidence rate per 100K:

Testicular Cancer ~12 to 15
3x to 4x more common than colon cancer; Thyroid Cancer ~8 to 10 2x to 2.5x more common than colon cancer; Melanoma (Skin) ~6 to 8 1.5x to 2x more common than colon cancer; Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma ~5 to 7 Slightly more common than colon cancer.
Colorectal Cancer ~3 to 4

One main thing young people can do is not buy into the protein BS and ingore everything else. EAT FIBRE!!!. 20-30 grams of fibre plus protein is ideal. Don’t go on fad diets like carnivore or no carbs.

Glad to see there is more awareness from the media, but the fear mongering of this and many other topics needs to calm down

40 here

I was given the option for a colonoscopy last year following a gastroscopy. Thought why not, make it my health check year 

They found 1 polyp and it was removed

I’m relatively healthy and active, my diet can definitely improve. No family history of colorectal cancer. I thought what could’ve been if I hadn’t taken that chance 

I wanted a colonoscopy cause a friend recently died from colon cancer at 30 and he said I need to wait until I’m 50.. same with mammograms you can’t get anything if you’re in your 30s