In Belgium, 6 percent of all patients with colorectal cancer are already under the age of 50, an increase that can be seen worldwide. Vincent Verelst, VRT NWS journalist, was diagnosed with the disease when he was 40. “What I have the most difficulty with is that it has been able to do its thing for me for 10 years,” he says in “Terzake”. Lowering the screening age may be a solution, but it is debated.
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