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The disturbing rise of colorectal cancer among the youth

When 37-year-old Michael Oloo began experiencing intermittent stomach upsets, acid refluxes and heart burns, he shrugged it off as a side effect of the back therapy he was undergoing. He was not worried about it. He had fallen off a six-metre high roof and that had left him with a lingering back pain that he was seeking treatment for.  

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