Weight loss may be an early clinical sign of early-onset CRC

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, identified several factors, including increasing age and male sex, as potential risk factors for early-onset colorectal cancer, according to study results.Additionally, they found that weight loss may signal risk for developing the cancer.Although incidence of early-onset CRC is on the rise, Samir Gupta, MD, MSCS, AGAF, of Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego, told Healio Gastroenterology and Liver Disease that risk factors associated with it have not been widely studied.“Colorectal cancer incidence andRead More