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Anirban Maitra: The Striking Annual Percentage Change for Localized Early Onset Colorectal Cancer in the 45-49 yo
Aug 5, 2025, 11:03

Anirban Maitra: The Striking Annual Percentage Change for Localized Early Onset Colorectal Cancer in the 45-49 yo

Anirban Maitra, Scientific Director of Sheikh Ahmed Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research and Professor of Pathology and Translational Molecular Pathology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, shared a post on X about recent paper by Elizabeth J. Schafer et al., published in JAMA Network.

“The striking annual percentage change (APC) for localized early onset Colorectal Cancer in the 45-49 age group after the lowering in age of screening from 50y to 45y.

Too many earlier onset CRC are still being missed in the 40-44y age group.

Default FIT testing or office sigmoidoscopy should be offered after 40y to everyone. Most of the non syndromic early onset cancers in the 40-44y age group are rectal cancers. Default FIT tests have a higher uptake than colonoscopy and cheaper.”

Title: Colorectal Cancer Incidence in US Adults After Recommendations for Earlier Screening

Authors: Elizabeth J. Schafer, Hyuna Sung, Jessica Star, Priti Bandi, Robert A. Smith, and Rebecca L. Siegel

Read The Full Article at JAMA Network.

Anirban Maitra: The Striking Annual Percentage Change for Localized Early Onset Colorectal Cancer in the 45-49 yo

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