{"id":235484,"date":"2026-04-17T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/education-gap-tied-to-higher-risk-for-young-onset-crc-death"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:17:09","slug":"education-gap-tied-to-higher-risk-for-young-onset-crc-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/education-gap-tied-to-higher-risk-for-young-onset-crc-death","title":{"rendered":"Education Gap Tied to Higher Risk for Young-Onset CRC Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/education-gap-tied-to-higher-risk-for-young-onset-crc-death.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a cross-sectional study of adults aged 25\u201349 years in the US, colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality rose from 1994 to 2023, primarily among those with 15 or fewer years of education, and educational disparities in mortality widened over time. More on the study.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers analyze trends in colorectal cancer mortality among adults aged 25\u201349 years in a study spanning about three decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a cross-sectional study of adults aged 25\u201349 years in the US, colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality rose from 1994 to 2023, primarily among those with 15 or fewer years of education, and educational disparities in mortality widened over time. More on the study. Researchers analyze trends in colorectal cancer mortality among adults aged 25\u201349 years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}