Advisory Board January 5, 2026
Cancer diagnoses among Americans under 50 have surged in recent decades, yet mortality rates have remained relatively stable, leading some experts to question whether the U.S. is over-detecting cancers that may never become life-threatening, and whether immediate treatment is always necessary, Gina Kolata reports for the New York Times.
A rise in cancer rates
Since 1992, the number of diagnoses of eight cancers in U.S. patients under 50 has doubled, including cancers in the thyroid, anus, kidney, small intestine, colorectum, endometrium, and pancreas.
“The magnitude and speed at which early onset cancer incidence has increased is unlike most cancer trends ever observed (the possible exception being cigarette smoking and lung cancer),” the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) said.
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