Why are so many young adults getting cancer?

Published Date: 22 Feb 2025

When Beatrice Dionigi was in medical school 15 years ago, she was taught that colon cancer—long known as a "silent killer" for its ability to advance undetected—was a disease of old age, striking people in their 50s and ...

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