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How Colorectal and colon cancer differ. [Courtesy]
In the weeks after the succumbing of former Kibera MP Ken Okoth and former Bomet Governor Joyce Laboso to colon and colorectal cancers respectively, the country’s attention has been drawn to the two related cancers, whose prevalence in Kenya and Africa, oncologists say, is fast rising.
According to oncologists at the Nairobi Hospital, the cancer, which used to be associated with older people, is also increasingly being diagnosed among younger populations, not only in Kenya but around the world.
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