![]() ![]() One is that colorectal polyps are now being found more often by screening and removed before they can develop into cancers. There are a number of likely reasons for this. The death rate from colorectal cancer has been dropping in both men and women for several decades. It's expected to cause about 52,550 deaths during 2023. In the United States, colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths in both men and women, and it's the second most common cause of cancer deaths when numbers for men and women are combined. However, each person's risk might be higher or lower than this, depending on their risk factors for colorectal cancer. Overall, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 23 for men and 1 in 26 for women. In people younger than 50, rates have been increasing by 1% to 2% a year since the mid-1990s. But this downward trend is mostly in older adults. From 2011 to 2019, incidence rates dropped by about 1% each year. The rate of people being diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer each year has dropped overall since the mid-1980s, mainly because more people are getting screened and changing their lifestyle-related risk factors. The American Cancer Society’s estimates for the number of colorectal cancers in the United States for 2023 are: Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United States. ![]()
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