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A Big Change in Colon Cancer Screening | Living Minute

Researchers say many colon cancers in younger people could have been avoided if the patients were screened earlier.  Authorities have lowered the age to begin screening for colon cancer to help find younger people with this deadly disease in time to possibly cure cancer or remove polyps before they become cancer.

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