Prognosis better for colon-cancer families

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In patients treated for colon cancer, the odds of recurring disease and that their disease will return and their risk of death is lower if they have a family member who has had the cancer, researchers report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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