Colorectal cancer is now the deadliest cancer for those under 50, in grim milestone

Colorectal cancer has since jumped up from being the fifth-leading cancer death in the early 1990s.
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Colorectal Cancer Is Now the Leading Cause of Cancer Death in People Under 50—What You Need To Know

A new report found that colorectal cancer causes more deaths than any other type of cancer, including breast and lung cancers ...
Scientific American

Colon cancer is killing more young people in the U.S. than any other cancer

Fewer people under age 50 are dying from cancer in the U.S., but colorectal cancer mortality rates continue to surge ...

New ACS Research Confirms Colorectal Cancer Is Now the Leading Cause of Cancer Death in America

Springfield, Mo., Jan. 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- New research from the American Cancer Society (ACS), published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), confirms a grim ...
Medical Xpress

Landscape of KRAS mutations and targeted therapies in colorectal cancer mapped in new study

A team of researchers from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and Institut Català d'Oncologia (ICO) has studied alterations in the KRAS gene in colorectal cancer by combining genomic ...