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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Dh is a gastroenterologist and I’m worried about how many gen Zers are going to be diagnosed with colon cancer in their 20’s and 30’s. [/quote]
Why?  (Genuinely curious!)[/quote]
It's a trend.

Colorectal cancer in younger adults (2022) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9177054/

I am very intrigued to see this because it’s also some thing that has kind of scared me — I’m 44 and two people in my life, within 3 to 4 years of age of me we’re diagnosed with colon cancer within the last two years. In both cases, it was advanced—  One was stage three verging on four, and the other was stage four. Both have elderly parents in their 70s with ZERO history of colon or any other cancer - so it’s not a hereditary thing.

Tragically the person who got diagnosed at stage four passed away ~ 7 months after diagnosis.

The person who got diagnosed at stage 3/4 actually has had tremendous success and is back at work after a year plus off, and has a hopeful prognosis.

That said, as someone whose mother had breast cancer twice, and whose father had prostate cancer and then died of Mesothelioma, these trends of colon cancer in young-ish people are frightening. I knew the cancers I was supposed to watch for because of family history, but it seems that colon cancer is springing up without warning for my contemporaries, and I’ve wondered if maybe processed food our generation ate as kids was behind it. 
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