HEALTH
Colon cancer is increasing in younger Coloradans even as death rate drops for people over 55
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In 2020, the most recent year with data on cancer cases, 452 people under the age of 55 received a colorectal cancer diagnosis in Colorado, up from 367 a decade earlier—a 23% increase…