Cancers in Younger Adults Are on the Rise. Why?

Cancers in younger adults are on the rise. Why?

Veda Giri of the Yale Cancer Center explains what research is telling us about the alarming uptick in cancers among younger adults.

The incidence of cancer in young adults is increasing alarmingly

Unfortunately, there are a range of early-onset cancers that are being diagnosed today in persons who are on average 10 to 15 years younger than those diagnosed with a similar cancer a mere 30 years ago. Early-onset cancers (EOCs) are cancers occurring in persons between the ages of 18 and 49. In the 1990s we began to see a rise in EOCs. Between 1990 and 2019, the incidence of EOCs...