Medical Xpress July 31, 2024
American Cancer Society

A new large study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) suggests that incidence rates have continued to rise in successively younger generations in 17 of the 34 cancer types, including breast, pancreatic, and gastric cancers. Mortality trends also increased in conjunction with the incidence of liver (female only), uterine corpus, gallbladder, testicular, and colorectal cancers. The report appears in The Lancet Public Health.

“These findings add to growing evidence of increased in post-Baby Boomer generations, expanding on previous findings of early-onset colorectal cancer and a few obesity-associated cancers to encompass a broader range of cancer types,” said Dr. Hyuna Sung, lead author of the study and a senior principal scientist of surveillance and health equity...

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