Dr. Jedd Wolchok and Mary Elizabeth Williams at the Cancer Research Institute

How Colorectal Cancer Is Hitting Younger People

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 15, 2023

The White House officially designated March as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Matthew Yurgelun, physician and director of Dana-Farber’s Lynch Syndrome Center, talks about new data that found an increase in the number of adults under the age of 50 with the disease, and explains what people of average (and above average) risk should do to take care of their health in this area.

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