KOLD News 13Smoking, Drinking Linked To Early Colon Cancer
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Screening for colon cancer is generally recommended for anyone 50 or older.
90% of cases occur after that age.
Researchers analyzed more than 160,000 colon cancer cases.
They found that patients who had smoked and drank alcohol in the previous year developed the disease an average of eight years earlier than people who never smoked and never drank.
The findings are in the "Archives of Internal Medicine."
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