Should Flanders consider lowering its target age for colorectal cancer screening to 45–49?

Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening generally starts screening by the age of 50 based on guidelines. Lately however, a U.S. guideline recommended to start CRC screening from age 45 and, very recently, two studies were published that addressed young-onset in Europe (in part) (Vuik et al., 2019; Araghi et al., 2019). Flemish CRC incidence and mortality data contextualise trend results for age groups under 50 and what the implications could be for...