Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?

Colorectal cancer rates are genuinely rising in younger people, with both incidence and mortality increasing, though the exact cause remains unclear. Proposed explanations range from obesity and poor diet to microbiome changes and environmental exposures, but experts disagree on which factors are primarily responsible, and most individual theories have significant weaknesses when examined closely. The increase is real and concerning enough that younger people today face higher colorectal cancer risk at their current age compared to previous generations at the same age.