The incidence of anal cancer in the United States has increased since 2001 among people ages 50 years and older, yet declined in younger people, according to research presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology. This resulted in a 2.1% overall increase in anal cancer incidence. Women are now much more likely to be diagnosed with the disease than men.
“This is a preventable cancer,” said Anas Raed, MD, a gastroenterology fellow at the Medical