Weve covered this phenomenon before.
Breast, thyroid, and colon or rectal cancers were diagnosed the most in people under 50.
Cancers of the appendix and the intrahepatic bile duct grew the fastest among this group.
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How do the latest findings add to the conversation about rising cancer rates in young adults?
Different from other studies of early-onset cancer rates, this new paper tracked both case rates and mortality rates.
It also encompasses more cancer types than many of the major studies published recently.
Heres what you gotta know.
They analyzed incidence rates for 34 cancer types and death rates for 25 cancer types.
2024;9(8):e583-e593.
doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.28171
National Cancer Institute.Cancer stat facts: common cancer sites.
2019;4(3):e137-e147.
2023;5(4):431-440. doi:10.1016/j.jaccao.2023.01.010
