Doctors may not be giving young cancer patients what they need

The rate of cancer deaths in the U.S. has steadily declined for several decades. But there’s a caveat: We’ve recently seen a small but worrisome increase in the rate of certain cancers—particularly colon cancers—among adults under 50. These patients have a set of needs that the health care system, accustomed to an older patient population, is not always meeting.

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