Cancer Rates Are Rising in Young People. Here’s What You Need to Know
By Drs Karen Knudsen & Othman Laraki.
Do you think you are too young to get screened for cancer? Think again.
It might save your lifeToday a woman in her 30s faces higher odds of a cancer diagnosis than her grandmother did at her age two generations ago. Cancer incidence and mortality are rising in millennials and even younger populations, according to American Cancer Society (ACS) data, while rates among older Americans are declining. In July, a study found that both members of Generation X and Millennials face a higher risk than older generations of 17 types of cancer. Cancer spares no one. Not a month goes by without the news of a celebrity, an acquaintance, a friend or a family member learning what each of us dreads to hear from a doctor: “You have cancer.” Just this March global attention was captured by the news of 42-year-old Catherine, Princess of Wales, who is married to the heir to the British throne, sharing the news of her cancer diagnosis.
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