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What we know about the rise in early-onset cancer
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A troubling trend in medicine. Cancer rates among people younger than 50 are rising. What we know, and what we don’t, about the rise in early-onset cancer.
Guests
Dr. Kimmie Ng, director of Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer Center at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Dr. Tim Rebbeck, Vincent L. Gregory, Jr. professor of cancer prevention and epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Alexa Morrell, mother diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer.
Dr. Laura Esserman, surgical oncologist. Professor of surgery and radiology and director of the multidisciplinary breast cancer program at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Julia Brody, executive director and senior scientist at Silent Spring Institute.
Dr. Peter Campbell, professor of epidemiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.