text:  We are, unfortunately. So those statistics are reality. We see day after day, week after week, 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds, 40-year-olds with no family history, no genetic syndrome, no risk factors following a healthy lifestyle who are being diagnosed with advanced stages of colorectal cancer. Advanced stages? Yes. Unfortunately, the majority of these young people are diagnosed with stage 3 or 4 cancer, which is much less curable than if it were diagnosed at stage 1 or 2.