The Austria-based study in JAMA found that men frequently have advanced polyps that could lead to colorectal cancer at ages 45-49, a decade earlier than women.
In the study, 18.5 percent of men aged 50-54 had adenomas, compared with 10.7 percent of women those ages.
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