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Cancer cases are rising in adolescents and young adults
Penn State College of Medicine researchers found that cancer cases in adolescents and young adults have risen by 30% during the last four decades, with kidney cancer rising at the greatest rate. The team said further research into screening, diagnosis and treatment are needed to address the growing trend in this age group.
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Cancer cases are rising in adolescents and young adults
Zachary Sweger
December 01, 2020
HERSHEY, Pa. Cancer cases in adolescents and young adults have risen by 30% during the last four decades, with kidney cancer rising at the greatest rate, according to researchers at Penn State College of Medicine. The team said further research into screening, diagnosis and treatment are needed to address the growing trend in this age group.
10 Questions About Advanced Colon Cancer Treatment
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You’ve gotten your initial diagnosis, which already was a shock. Now your doctor has more potentially bad news your cancer has spread and you are among the 22% of patients who has stage 4, or advanced, colon cancer. Now what? You’ll probably have a lot of questions about your treatment plan and what you can expect. Here are some reassuring answers.
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What does stage 4 cancer really mean?
“The way that I approach thinking about staging is if you see cancer outside of the colon, that s metastatic disease, and that’s stage four,” says Leah Biller, M.D., an oncologist at Dana-Farber’s Gastrointestinal Cancer Treatment Center in Boston. Doctors arrive at the number by doing imaging tests (CT scans or, sometimes, MRIs or PET scans) as well as surgically removing the tumor. If the scans show that there’s cancer in other parts of your body your lungs, your liver or in the lymph nodes outside the colon, that’