Dramatic rise in gastrointestinal cancers in people under 50

There has been a dramatic rise in gastrointestinal cancers in people under the age of 50, according to a new review.

Gastrointestinal cancers, such as colorectal cancer and pancreatic cancer, “represent the most rapidly increasing early-onset cancer in the US,” researchers wrote in a review published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Thursday.