Yesterday, in a news story titled “Appendix Cancer Striking Young Patients” Robert and Angela Adams share their experience regarding Robert’s recent appendix cancer diagnosis. Robert is currently seeking treatment at Vanderbilt and hopes to have CRS/HIPEC soon following chemotherapy. “Doctors are seeing an increase in the number of patients with appendix cancer. Many of the patients are younger.”[1] Recently the Appendix Cancer...

March is colorectal cancer awareness month. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the US, and the second leading cause of cancer death. It affects men and women of all racial and ethnic groups, and is most often found in people 50 years or older although incidence in those younger than 50 is on the rise.[1]. Appendix cancer...