article thumbnail

Colorectal Cancer in Younger Individuals & The Importance of Hereditary Cancer Testing 

Myriad Genetics

A study by the American Cancer Society and published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians found that half of all new colorectal cancer diagnoses are in people 66 and younger. was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer when he was just 27 years old. Singleton’s story In 2015, J.J. Today, J.J.

article thumbnail

Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

So we really wondered, you know, in modern palliative care practice, where we’re seeing patients a lot farther upstream than we used to, and we’re seeing patients with a wider range of diagnoses, we wanted to update, sort of. What are the prognoses associated with various PPS scores? Eric 07:31 Yeah, and I can imagine, I.

Families 106