Younger and middle-aged people need to be more watchful for signs of colon cancer, which is increasingly affecting millennials and not being picked up until it is dangerously late. The journal Annals of Oncology has published research showing “rising death rates from bowel cancer among people aged 25-49 years in the European Union (EU) and the UK” and suggesting excess weight and alcohol were causes. That followed the American Cancer Society publishing data earlier in January showing a similar rise in the US. “Colorectal cancer was the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in both men and women…