2026-02-26 from globalnews.ca
Colorectal Cancer Canada is recommending provinces and territories should “commit to lowering the routine colorectal cancer screening age to 45 for average-risk Canadians.”
Thursday’s press release argues that lowering the screening age from 50 is “a change experts say is urgently needed to reflect rising rates of the disease among younger adults.”
An American Cancer Society research letter released in January also highlighted that colorectal cancer is now “the leading cause of cancer-related death among individuals under the age of 50 in the United States.”
This trend is mirrored in Canada with incidence rates steadily increasing among adults aged 45 to 49.
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