Why Is Bowel Cancer Rising in Under 50s? | Dr Anisha Patel

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]What we do know is that there is this global rise in early onset bowel cancers, and bowel cancer under 50s.

[00:00:07]And it is growing exponentially. We know that since 1995 there's been a 24% increase in bowel cancer under 50, and this is in 27 out of 50 countries worldwide. And in fact, some of the work that I'm doing at the minute is looking into other risk factors and why there is this global rise. And I'm doing that um with funding from the Bowel Babe Fund and Cancer Research UK under the Cancer Grand Challenges. And we've got a team worldwide from Harvard to India to Italy. And we're we're basically facing a race against time. I'm going to be brutally honest, trying to find the answers and work out who we need to screen earlier. Because it is those patients diagnosed younger tend to die be diagnosed at a later stage, therefore have more brutal seek treatment and side effects, die more, and you know, ultimately are presenting as an emergency rather than coming to me at those earlier stages.

[00:01:06]>> [music]