Emily is a health news writer based in London, United Kingdom. She holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Durham University and a master's degree in clinical and therapeutic neuroscience from Oxford University. She has worked in science communication, medical writing and as a local news reporter while undertaking journalism training.
Gen Xers may be more likely to be diagnosed with cancer at 60 years old than their parents' generation was, a new study forecasts.
In the new study, published June 10 in the journal JAMA Network Open, researchers used these projections to estimate how many people born between 1908 and 1983 are likely to be diagnosed with cancer at a benchmark age of 60. These statistical models can uncover possible trends, but can't say why they're happening — for example, they don't take into account environmental factors that can drive cancer, or improvements in cancer screening and diagnostics.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.These rising figures canceled out any declining ones and ultimately resulted in an overall predicted increase in cancer rates across all sexes, races and ethnicities of Gen Xers. Men of Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry were the only exception to this trend.
Several studies have looked at one cancer at a time to reveal increasing rates of diagnosis, particularly in people under the age of 50, he said. However, this new analysis brings all these findings"into context."
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