Gen X and Millennials in the U.S. are at greater risk for 17 cancers than were previous generations, a major new study revealed.
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A subset of mouth and throat cancers in females, anal cancer in males, and Kaposi sarcoma in males were also increasingly diagnosed in people at a younger age than in previous generations, according to the study. There could be something different about the biology of cancer in younger patients, suggested William Dahut, MD, a medical oncologist and the American Cancer Society's chief scientific officer. "We probably need to think of different ways to screen for these cancers," he said.
While the rates of leukemia and myeloma are increasing, the rate at which people are dying from them has declined, which Nead attributed to improvements in treatments.
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