My Dog Got a Colon Cancer Test. This 29-Year-Old Didn't.
Colorectal cancer is no longer a disease of older people. Three out of four cases diagnosed under age 50 are already advanced stage, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer projects that early-onset colorectal cancer will double roughly every 15 years if current trends continue.
Dr. George Beauregard spent twenty years as a board-certified internist and could count the colorectal cancer patients he'd seen under 50 on one hand. Then his son Patrick was diagnosed at 29. Patrick was a Marine and a runner with no family history and no risk factors, and his first symptom sent him…
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