Your Health: Colorectal Cancer
Channel: UMMCVideos
Date: 2020-03-30

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in both men and women. Of those diagnosed with this cancer, 91 percent are over 50 years old, and the incidence has been dropping. But the rate has been increasing in adults under 50, and the death rate is also on the rise, even though colonoscopies are more common. Dr. Andrea Bafford, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a colorectal surgeon at the University of Maryland Medical Center, discusses this trend.

Learn more at colorectal cancer services:
https://umms.org/umgccc/cancer-services/cancer-types/gastrointestinal/colorectal