Experts are surprised at how quickly it replaced lung cancer and breast cancer. Colon cancer is officially the deadliest cancer for people under 50 in the US — a shift that happened more rapidly than cancer researchers expected. Alyssa Pointer for BIThe absolute number of colon cancer deaths in working-age people under 50 is still relatively small, with the American Cancer Society estimates suggesting around 3,750 people under 50 died from colon cancer in 2023. Colon cancer has been the leading cause of cancer death in men under 50 since about 2014, when it beat out lung cancer, but until 2023, breast cancer remained the leading cause of cancer death in people under 50 overall. Read the original article on Business InsiderThe post Colon cancer is officially the deadliest cancer for people under 50.