Cancer rates in people younger than 50 are rising

Doctors say the findings are important. “We are well aware that there is an increase in colorectal cancer in younger people under age 50, but we weren’t aware that the cancers that are growing more rapidly are more unusual cancers like appendix cancer and biliary cancers,” Dr. Anton Bilchik, a surgical oncologist and chief of medicine at Saint John’s Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, Calif., tells Yahoo Life.

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