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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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