Colorectal cancer has long been a cancer suffered by older people, or more precisely, those aged over 50 yrs, and these have made up in the region of 90% of those diagnosed with bowel cancer.

However, there has been an increasing amount of young people (<50 yrs old) diagnosed with bowel cancer this has been a 51% increase since 1994, and an average of between 1-3% yearly increase!

What is driving this increase in bowel (colon) cancer in the younger generation?