Posted on 07/21/2024 6:21:48 PM PDT by CottonBall
The American Cancer Society reports lower overall cancer death rates, yet incidence is increasing for many common cancers, including 6 of the top 10.
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What might be most striking about the rising incidence is that it’s affecting increasingly younger people.
Cancer patients are getting younger. Cancer risk increases with age, and people most likely to be diagnosed with cancer are adults age 65 and older. But this trend is beginning to change.
People age 65 and older (sometimes referred to as older adults) represent a growing proportion of the overall population, but their numbers are shrinking in the proportion of new cancer cases. In 1995, people age 65 and older accounted for 61% of cancer diagnoses and during 2019 to 2020 their contribution dropped to 58%.
In contrast, people ages 50 to 64 (sometimes referred to as middle-aged adults) are growing in numbers for both the population at large and the population of people with cancer. This shift toward middle-aged patients reflects both steep decreases in the incidence of prostate cancer and smoking-related cancers in older men and increasing incidence in men and women born since the 1950s. Although some of this increase is probably because of the obesity epidemic, there are thought to be other unknown causes as well.
The proportion of people under age 50 (sometimes referred to as younger adults) diagnosed with cancer dropped from 15% to 12% because of their shrinking representation in the general population (from 74% to 64%). Interestingly, though, they were the only one of the three age groups with an increase in overall cancer incidence from 1995 to 2020.
Especially notable is the rise in colorectal cancer diagnoses among people younger than 50. In the late 1990s, colorectal cancer was the fourth leading cause of cancer death in both men and women in this age group, and now, it is the first cause of cancer death in men younger than 50 and the second cause in women that age. The cause of the rise of colorectal cancer cases in younger adults remains unexplained but likely reflects changes in lifestyle exposures that begin with generations born around 1950, the authors say.
Cervical cancer is increasing in incidence in an even younger population—women ages 30 to 44. (In contrast, the incidence of cervical cancer in women who were among the first groups to have received the HPV vaccine—who are now ages 20 to 24—declined 11% a year between 2012 and 2019.)
“ Looks to me the stats here are pre-Covid”
I think it was happening before as well. Lot of extra deaths from breast and colon cancer in younger people for at least a decade. Would be interesting to know what all is causing this
Nope, it is now beach walks on beautiful sandy beaches here on Atlantic ocean. I quit treadmill since it was giving me bouts of sciatica attacks. I simply can not believe how much energy I still have. Mowing my good sized lawn with push mower even during hot summers in Florida.
I never imagined regular exercise would be this beneficial in my mid-80’s. Bonus is no diabetes (was diagnosed border line in mid-50’s), no heart issues, no joint aches.
Anyone reading this, please start a regular mild exercise daily routine. Better than any medicine or food supplements. I want all Freepers to live long and healthy lives.
Do you spend a lot of time on Cruise Ships?
You has a smellz about you!
I’m so sorry.
Your bragging about good health on a cancer thread is incredibly tone deaf.
Sure does.
Say, Bobby, do you ever go on cruises?
“Per capita” cancer rates have been falling since about 2000 or so:
https://cancerstatisticscenter.cancer.org/trends/incidence-rates
Read the fine print on how those stats are collected at your second link.
Deep State is screwing with ICD-10 coding for a reason.
Only 3? You haven’t had the follow ups for this years covid?
“an increase in overall cancer incidence from 1995 to 2020”
clearly the covid vaccine.
It was the two comments about unexplained or causes Unknown about increasing rates in younger people that was of interest.
A heartfelt thank you for all your kind wishes!
Skin cancers - basal, squamous, melanoma - are massively over diagnosed.
I suspect that is a trend in all USA medical specialties, at least partly because of malpractice fears if something unusual really does develop into cancer.
With skin cancer, if dermatologists preemptively blasted every suspicious lesion or mole with liquid nitrogen, the skin cancer rate would drop by 90%.
Instead, most dermatologists do nothing but look - or, they do a thousand dollar biopsy.
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