Urges U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to lower recommended colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45.

This concurrent resolution (SCR 29) urges the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to lower its recommended colorectal cancer screening age from 50 to 45 for people with average cancer risk. It cites CDC data showing rising colorectal cancer rates among younger adults (including those born in the 1990s being twice as likely to develop colon cancer) and references the American Cancer Society’s updated recommendation that earlier screening reduces deaths. The resolution does not change current guidelines but formally requests the Task Force consider this adjustment. It directly addresses the Task Force, an independent panel of medical experts, not individual patients or healthcare providers.