BUFFALO, N.Y. — It’s Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and a new national survey shows that nearly 70 percent of people would rather file their taxes than get a colonoscopy.
Colonoscopies are now recommended starting when you turn 45. A big reason for the age being lowered to 45 was that doctors were seeing an increase in younger people being diagnosed with colon cancer, and now 20 percent of new cases are in people under 55.
“By the year 2030, which sounds really far away, but is really only five years from now, the number one cause of cancer death in patients under the age of 50, so between the ages of 20 and 49, is going to be colorectal cancer,” Dr. Bethany Wood Harvey of UBMD Surgery said…