…and THESE are the hotspots for the disease
Scientists have revealed the seven factors that put young men at a higher risk of colon cancer – as experts scramble to find what’s causing a surge in the disease.
Once seen as a disease of the elderly, there has been a mysterious doubling in colon cancer cases among young adults in recent years.
Researchers from Indiana University analyzed medical records of 3,000 men aged 35 to 49 years old — a fifth of whom were diagnosed with colon cancer.
The study, published recently in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, looked at the electronic health records of men from veteran medical centers and databases. Continue reading