Higher cancer Risk

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.

Graphic cancer

Hodgkin lymphoma; mouth, throat and voice box cancer;