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What can increase the chances of a teenager getting stomach and/or colorectal cancer?
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Extremely rare: It is extremely rare that a teenager would get stomach or colon cancer. Increased chances would more likely involve colon cancer, with in an inherited familial colonic polyposis syndrome.
Answered 9/28/2016
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