If current cancer trends continue, authors of a new study project “cancer incidence in the US could remain unacceptably high for decades to come.”
As they head into their golden years, Gen-Xers are more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than the generation born before them, the Baby Boomers, a newconcludes, “cancer incidence in the U.S. could remain unacceptably high for decades to come.”Philip S. Rosenberg
For decades, the news about cancer had largely been encouraging. Lung cancer rates were dropping as a result of educational efforts about the harms of tobacco. In women, incidences of cervical cancer, and in men, incidences of liver, gallbladder and non-Hodgkin lymphoma also were dropping.The new study’s models found increases in thyroid, kidney, rectal, colon cancers and leukemia in both men and women.
Over the past century, for example, the incidence of kidney cancer has increased steadily in young Americans. “So it is not that being part of a particular more recent generation puts you at risk,” he said. “It is not that one generation was necessarily exposed to something that others born one generation earlier were not. It is a year-by-year change.”Environmental Working Group
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