Tag Archives: Disease

Colorectal cancer: a burgeoning issue in younger patients

We often think of colorectal cancer as an old man’s disease. Yet colorectal cancer is on the rise in younger patients, of all genders and ethnicities. A 2017 study found that once age is taken into account, people born in 1990—who are turning 29 this year—have double the risk of colon cancer and quadruple the [...]

HIV: No longer a death sentence, but not cured

In the 1980s, Oncologists across the nation were noticing a perplexing phenomena: hundreds and hundreds of young gay men with Kaposki’s sarcoma, a rare cancer. This was the beginning of the HIV epidemic in the United States.[1] Since then, HIV care has come a long way.[2] An HIV diagnosis is no longer a death sentence.[3] [...]