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New Research from UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Links Emergency Cancer Diagnoses to Significantly Lower Survival

We tend to think of cancer being caught during a mammogram, a colonoscopy or a conversation with a primary care doctor. Yet for many older Americans, the diagnosis comes in a crisis, inside an emergency department. A new national study led by UNC concludes that more than one in four older adults are diagnosed this way and their chances of surviving the first year are significantly lower.

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