Posted on 01/17/2025 4:52:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported on Thursday.
And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native Americans are dying of some cancers at rates two to three times higher than those among white Americans. The shifts reflect declines in smoking-related cancers and prostate cancer among older men and a disconcerting rise in cancer in people born since the 1950s.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, but the leading cause among Americans under 85. The new report projects that some 2,041,910 new cases will occur this year and that 618,120 Americans will die of the disease.
Six of the 10 most common cancers are on the rise, including cancers of the breast and the uterus. Also increasing are colorectal cancers among people under 65, as well as prostate cancer, melanoma and pancreatic cancer.
“These unfavorable trends are tipped toward women,” said Rebecca L. Siegel, an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society and the report’s first author.
“Of all the cancers that are increasing, some are increasing in men, but it’s lopsided — more of this increase is happening in women.”
Women are also being diagnosed at younger ages. Cancer rates are rising among women under 50 (so-called early-onset cancer), as well as among women 50 to 64.
Despite increases in some early-onset cancers, like colorectal cancer and testicular cancer, “overall rates are flat in men under 50 and decreasing in those 50 to 64,” Ms. Siegel said.
Several other troubling trends are outlined in the report. One is an increase in new cases of cervical cancer — a disease widely viewed as...
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Fauciitis.
Hmm how many of them had abortions?
A doctor told me decades ago that if you want a tumor, take estrogen.
Having babies drops your odds of certain cancers among women significantly. Cervical, ovarian, breast, cancers. Breast feed your babies as well.
No serious side effects.
Cancer is only a problem when it affects women blacks and injuns.? Obviously it is racism and global warming.
Don’t forget the input HPV infection has on cancers of the colorectal, head, neck,(mouth and pharyngeal) areas....
Because more are strong and independent and are living with the stress levels men have forever. Its gonna keep going up.
Womens immune systems can handle dealing with hpv better than mens. Its the multiple partner vectors that make things with the hpv get out of control down there.
+ the e lung tokers....
O-People
I was thinking along those lines, would not be surprised if there was a link between abortions and uterus/breast cancer. But it is not politically correct to allow that research.
I don’t want to say its the vaxx but......
the HPV vax!
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