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Colon cancer rates are rising in young Americans, but insurance barriers are making screening harder

  • Written by: Andrea Shin, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles
imageColon cancer symptoms usually don't arise until later stages of the disease, making routine screening imperative for prevention.Valiantsin Suprunovich/iStock via Getty Images

More than 53,000 Americans are projected to die from colorectal cancer this year. Although colorectal cancer is the second-most common cause of cancer deaths in the United...

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