Many younger patients with colon cancer are initially misdiagnosed, which often leads to their disease being discovered at an advanced stage, according to survey results presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Colon cancer screening should start at 45, Cancer Society says
Out of the 1,195 people who completed surveys, 57 percent said they were diagnosed between the ages of 40 and 49, 33 percent received a diagnosis between the ages of 30 and 39 and about 10 percent were diagnosed before age 30. 67 percent saw at least two physicians before being properly diagnosed, and some saw as many as four.
“It is sad but not at all surprising to find out that many patients who develop colon cancer before the age of 50 were initially misdiagnosed,” Schnoll-Sussman said in an email. “First of all, why would a young person even think that the symptoms they were experiencing would be related to colon cancer? Colon cancer is often thought of as a disease in older people.
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