“Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United States. The American Cancer Society’s estimates for the number of colorectal cancers in the United States for 2023 are:

106,970 new cases of colon cancer
46,050 new cases of rectal cancer

The rate of people being diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer each year has dropped overall since the mid-1980s, mainly because more people are getting screened and changing their lifestyle-related risk factors. From 2011 to 2019, incidence rates dropped by about 1% each year. But this downward trend is mostly in older adults. In people younger than 50, rates have been increasing by 1% to 2% a year since the mid-1990s.”

American Cancer Society (https://www.cancer.org/cancer/colon-rectal-cancer/about/key-statistics.html)