Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among Kids and Teens—and It’s Not the Same Disease Adults Get

Colorectal cancer is increasingly becoming a bigger problem for younger people, even children and teens. Research out today shows that these latter cases are stranger than the cancers seen in adults.

Researchers studied the medical records of people under the age of 21 who were diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Younger people usually had no family history of cancer, they found, and commonly had aggressive, advanced tumors. Though the overall risk of colorectal cancer remains small among adolescents, doctors should suspect…