Gen xers Face Higher Cancer Risks

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Kishor Kumar Seth

12th December 2025

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Higher cancer Risk

Gen Xers Face Higher Cancer Risks Than Boomers

Younger generations are getting hit harder than their predecessors by 17 types of cancer

Study–17 Cancers on the Rise in Younger Generations

According to a study published in The Lancet Public Health, researchers found that compared with older generations, Generation X and millennials in the world have a higher risk of developing these cancers:

Colorectum
Uterine corpus
Gallbladder
Kidney and renal pelvis
Pancreas
Myeloma
Noncardia gastric, a type of stomach cancer
Leukemia
Testis
Cardia gastric, a type of stomach cancer
Small intestine
Estrogen receptor-positive breast
Ovary
Liver (in women)
Non-HPV-associated oral and pharynx (in women)
Anus (in men)
Kaposi sarcoma, a type of blood cancer (in men)

Strikingly, the researchers, led by a team from the American Cancer Society, found that adults born around 1990 are two to three times more likely to develop pancreatic, kidney, liver (in women) and small intestinal cancers than adults born around 1955. Younger adults are also seeing an increase in mortality for five different types of cancer, including liver (in women), uterine, gallbladder, testicular and colorectal cancers, the study found.

What does this have to do with cancer? According to the National Cancer Institute, there is “strong evidence” that higher levels of physical activity are linked to lower cancer risks.

The CDC has linked 13 types of cancer to obesity:

Breast cancer (in women)
Colon and rectal cancer
Endometrial cancer (also called uterine cancer)
Esophagus cancer
Gallbladder cancer
Stomach cancer
Kidney cancer
Liver cancer
Ovarian cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Thyroid cancer
Meningioma (a type of brain cancer)
Multiple myeloma

Being overweight may increase the risk for several others, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma; mouth, throat and voice box cancer; and aggressive forms of prostate cancer, the American Cancer Society says.

Graphic cancer

Hodgkin lymphoma; mouth, throat and voice box cancer;

Trends in cancer incidence in young generations or young adults (age <50 years) largely reflect increased exposure to carcinogenic factors during early life or young adulthood compared with previous generations,7 and foreshadow futur

e disease burden as these young cohorts carry their increased risk into older age, when cancers most frequently occur.

7 To quantify cancer risk among younger generations of adults compared with their older counterparts, we aimed to examine trends in incidence rates of 34 cancers and mortality rates of 25 cancers for 2000 to 2019 by birth cohort spanning from 1920 to 1990 .

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