The new study reveals the largest risk factor for colon cancer at the age of 35 – and will shock you

Cases of colon cancer are growing in young people, alarming experts and letting doctors try to find why.

Now, a study published by a team of international researchers in the journal Neoplasia offers new data.

The study analyzed “very early colorectal cancers”-defined as a diagnosis before the age of 35-and found three major risk factors.

A deficient calcium diet was considered the highest risk factor, associated with approximately one in five deaths from colon cancer to young people.

Alcohol consumption was defined as the second largest risk factor, while obesity was defined as the third.

Incidentally, a study published earlier this month suggested a link between consuming a large glass of milk a day with a lower risk of colon cancer in particular in women.

For the study, the team used data from the global burden of disease and found that global cases of colon cancer in people under 35 were almost doubled between 1990 and 2019 from 21,874 to 41,545.

In those under 35, the disease seems to disproportionately affect men. In 2019, data showed that there were 25,432 cases in men, while there were only 16,113 cases in women.

Global deaths also increased during that time period analyzed from 11,445 to 15,486, according to the study, which bonded a low diet in milk and calcium, alcohol use and high body mass index as “leading death contributors”.

Surprisingly, the lack of training and smoking is said to have had “less contribution to death”.

Experts have also examined environmental causes, ultra -processed foods or certain diets as causes for colon cancer, which is diagnosed in 107,320 Americans each year.

While it is usually considered a disease that disproportionately affects elderly populations, colon cancer – which causes rectal bleeding, abdominal pain, changes in excrement habits, weight loss, anemia and fatigue – has increased in all age groups.

“It has been very alarming for all of us,” before Dr. Coral Olazagasti, an assistant professor of clinical medical oncology at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Miami Sylvester.

In the past, you would think that cancer was a disease of the elderly population. But now we have seen trends in recent years when people are diagnosed with cancer earlier and earlier.