Adam Young was just 32 years old when he was diagnosed with stage three rectal cancer. He only had one symptom, blood in his stool. "I didn't really pay attention to it at first. I just thought it would go away," said Young.
With an increase in younger patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer, doctors are looking into why and how. "I think a couple of the things they’ve been exploring is better understanding tumors, looking at molecular features, mutations to better understand if there’s a difference between younger and older patients," said Dr. Pallavi Kumar, one of Young’s oncologists.
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