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A new report shows that cancer cases are increasing in females and young adults in the United States. For the first time, cancer rates in females ages 50 to 64 have surpassed those in males.
Increasingly, though, young adults are now facing a higher risk of cancer. Colorectal cancer rates are up for people under 65; cervical cancer is on the rise in women between 30 and 44 years old ...
The rate of cancer for young women “has increased from 51% higher than men in 2002 to 82% higher ... where rates among people younger than 50 have increased by 2.4% per year — and mortality ...
In research that compared young people who had survived cancer with their healthy peers, 33% of adolescents and young adults with cancer were not working compared to 27% of controls. In another US study, 23% of adolescents and young adults with cancer reported unemployment due to health issues compared with 14% of controls.
In a disturbing worldwide trend, new cancer cases among young people have been increasing sharply. Early-onset cancers, defined as cancer cases diagnosed in people under 50, increased globally by ...
Largely due to reductions in people smoking cigarettes, the rate of deaths from cancer in the U.S. has declined by 34 percent from 1991 to 2022. A young woman with cancer listens to her doctor.
For women, liver cancer incidence has increased two- to threefold since the 1920s. ... and cancer rates, especially among young adults, suggest that the problem may begin in childhood or perhaps ...
From 2017 to 2021, the rate of these cancers rose by more than 3% per year among people younger than 50 — even as the rate fell by 2% among people older than 65, according to the AACR report.