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The true cost of a young cancer diagnosis
Rebecca Siegel still remembers the moment it started — a flash of data on her computer screen that stopped her cold.
It was 2008, and Siegel, then a young epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society, was preparing a report on colon cancer. Since regular colonoscopies became routine for people over 50 in the 1990s, colon cancer had been a point of pride in the gloomy world of cancer news. Tumors were caught sooner, and pre-cancerous polyps could be removed before they turned deadly...
