What's behind the increase in bowel cancer among younger Australians?
- Written by Suzanne Mahady, Gastroenterologist & Clinical Epidemiologist, Senior Lecturer, Monash University
Bowel cancer was the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australia in 2017.from shutterstock.com
Bowel cancer mostly affects people over the age of 50, but recent evidence suggests it’s on the rise among younger Australians.
Our study, published recently in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, found the incidence of bowel...
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