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fromBusiness Insider
6 hours ago

Colon cancer is officially the deadliest cancer for people under 50. Experts are shocked at how quickly this happened.

Colon cancer has become the leading cause of cancer death in U.S. adults under 50, with rising rates and a shifting birth-cohort risk since 1950.
fromHarvard Gazette
2 months ago

Odds of surviving cancer drop drastically when credit score dips - Harvard Gazette

While past studies have explored how cancer patients' financial health influenced their risk of mortality, new research digs in deeper by zeroing in on objective data: credit scores. It found that when a cancer patient's credit score drops - regardless of where it started pre-diagnosis - odds of survival decrease drastically. The findings were presented earlier this month at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress and have not been peer-reviewed.
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