Murphy CC, et al. - Using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of cancer registries, researchers studied racial disparities in young-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) by comparing CRC incidence and relative survival among younger (<50-year-old) adults from 1992–1996 to 2010–2014. From 1992 through 2014, CRC incidence rates (per 100,000 persons 20–54 years old) for different periods (1992–1996 vs 2010–2014) and races (white vs black) were estimated. Investigators found that CRC incidence increased from 7.5 to 11.0 per 100,000 in white people and from 11.7 to 12.7 per 100,000 in black people in 2 time periods. They observed racial disparities in the incidence of young-onset CRC and patient survival for cancer of the colon but the minimal difference for rectal cancer. Well-documented and recent increases in young-onset CRC were largely due to increases in rectal cancer, particularly in whites.