A newly released report by the American Cancer Society highlights a promising statistic—cancer mortality is on the decline and has been for decades. A few exceptions, however, include a particularly perplexing and alarming one: Colon cancer has been on the rise in young adults since the 1990s.
According to the report, the disease has taken the lead this year as the top cause of cancer deaths in adults under the age of 50. This begs the question: What is causing this uptick in the under-50 age group?
