If You’re 45 or Older, Get Screened for Colorectal Cancer

If You’re 45 or Older, Get Screened for Colorectal Cancer [the_ad id=”28610″]

(HealthDay News) — The American Cancer Society’s new colorectal cancer screening guidelines recommend that people at average risk start screening at age 45. That’s a drop of five years from the former guidelines, which recommended the first screening at age 50.

In lowering the age recommendation, the society cited rising numbers of colorectal cancer cases among younger Americans.

Screening should begin even earlier for people at higher risk of contracting colorectal cancer, the society says. Risk factors for earlier screening include: