What is the age for getting colon cancer?

Any age can get colon cancer including children.http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types.People often make the mistake of thinking that if they are a certain age they are somehow ‘safe’ from cancer. This is simply not true. Cancer can strike any sex, race, and age group. The medical community is not doing enough to make that message clear, especially in the age group from 13 to 30 years.Cancer in children is rare to begin with, but it still happens. My suggestion to you is to see your family doctor and discuss your concerns. Insist on a diagnosis. I wish that my 17 year old son had insisted, instead we all assumed that his complaints were the ‘normal gripes’ of a kid. By the time we listened (including the family doctor) he was stage IV with a primary tumor the size of a volley ball in his abdomen. Don’t wait. Check it out today.

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I don’t know the age for getting colon cancer-but they want men to start getting checked for it by age 50!

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Men are most at risk from the age of 50 and on up. I don’t know about women. It is generally a disease that strikes older people, so if you’re younger you needn’t be as worried.

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Colon cancer affects females slightly more than males, aged 50 and over.

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I dont think there is any set age. But most are over 45

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Usually after the age of 50.

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THe answer is not so easy, bcause it depends of what type of colon cancer. The most common, adenocarcinoma, usually takes in the third age, i mean since the 60’s. But if you have a predisposing factor like hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer or adenomatous colonic polyps you can get it earliest

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I think The Age Various..Depends On Your Family And Your AgeMy Opinion is At Good Health 45+ And If It Runs In Your FamilyAlso In Doubt 25+ But It Varies.