Colon Cancer

Colon cancer is by far the most important GI cancer in the United States. The number of new cases has actually gone down a little bit since that slide, 132,000 per year, 56,000 deaths colon cancer and rectal cancer. Far ahead of all of the others and definitely different than in the world where it is only second and is surpassed by gastric cancer. Again, to illustrate that this is a disease of the developed world, the darkness represents the relative incidence of colorectal cancer, a disease of North America, Europe, Australia and only in the last 20 years or so, as the Japanese have developed more Western eating habits.