(CTV News/ The Canadian Press) — A study out of Montreal has found colorectal cancer is on the rise in younger people, a phenomenon that experts don’t really understand, but which they find concerning.
However, nutrition, inflammation and the microbiome, or the intersection between the three, may have something to do with it.
An upward trend has been detected since 1995 in several industrialized countries such as Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
Over the past few years, the percentage of people aged 40 to 45 with colorectal cancer seems to be increasing,” said Dr. Carole Richard, head of the digestive surgery department at the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montreal (CHUM). “We don’t really know the cause, but there seems to be a higher percentage among younger people.” (…)