Medscape September 24, 2024
BARCELONA, Spain — Over three decades, from 1990 to 2019, the global incidence of early-onset cancer (EOC) increased by 79.1%. Irit Ben-Aharon, MD, PhD, from the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel, presented this alarming figure during her keynote lecture at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Meeting 2024. The session featured Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
The available data suggested that we are facing a true epidemic that the international oncology community can no longer ignore.
Generations at Risk
Ogino emphasized that the incidence of EOCs, defined as cancers diagnosed in individuals younger than 50 years, has been increasing sharply for decades. This rise is just...
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