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Health
Duncan Murray

Not a 'me' disease: bowel cancer surge in young people

Ebony Gaylor is among a fast-growing number of under-50-year-olds being diagnosed with bowel cancer. (Jay Kogler/AAP PHOTOS)

When Ebony Gaylor was diagnosed with bowel cancer at 38 years old, she couldn't believe it was happening to her.

The fit, young executive-level Melburnian thought issues in her gut were most likely too much gluten or irritable bowel, so she put off getting tested.

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