Long considered a disease of older adults, bowel cancer is increasingly affecting younger generations across the globe.
Cases of early-onset bowel cancer are climbing among people under 50 years old, with countries like the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Chile seeing some of the sharpest rises.
Here’s what to know about the shifting landscape of the disease.
What is bowel cancer?
Also known as colorectal cancer, bowel cancer involves tumours in the large bowel, which is made up of the colon and rectum.
Bowel cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, with over 1.9 million new cases and nearly 904,000 deaths reported in 2022.
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