Her cancer ‘nightmare’ at age 29 reflects a trend driving UCSF’s new clinic

Dr. Katherine Van Loon, a UCSF oncologist, visits with her patient Megan McNair, a Sacramento-area resident diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer at age 29, during an infusion for Crohn’s disease. Megan McNair was 29 and had just given birth to her second child last July when she learned she had Stage 4 colon cancer. Doctors initially told her she had five years to live.

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