The early-onset colon cancer epidemic has gripped the nation in recent years.
But doctors warn about the rise of another form of the disease among young people.
A report today from the American Cancer Society found that rates of the disease increased 1.4 percent annually between 2012 and 2021 among women under age 50.
This is double the rate in older age groups, which have seen an annual increase of 0.7 percent over the same period.
This is the latest cancer that appears to be on the rise in younger adults, after doctors have repeatedly warned that colon cancer is also on the rise in this age group.
The graph above indicates how breast cancer rates have increased by one percent each year in all age groups, but slightly faster among women under 50.
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Dr. Karen Knudsen, executive director of the American Cancer Society, told CNN: “If you look at the last decade, we have seen an increase in breast cancer incidence of about one percent year over year, and the slope of that figure. The increase does not affect all women equally in this case.
“There is a slightly greater increase in the rate of breast cancer diagnoses among women under 50 years of age than among those over 50 years of age.”
He added: “These are things we are looking at to try to understand.”
Olivia Munn is among women in their 40s to have been diagnosed with the disease, after revealing in March that she was diagnosed with cancer last year at the age of 43, just two months after a mammogram said everything It was fine.
The report, published this week, found that around 310,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year.
Of them, it is estimated that 13,180 are under 40 years old, while 37,650 are over 40 years old.
It was unclear why rates were increasing in younger women, but Dr. Ahmedin Jemal, co-author of the study, said changes in women’s reproductive habits may be behind this change.
He said more people were delaying motherhood and having fewer children or no children at all. Many were also not breastfeeding and were also experiencing earlier menstruations.
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All of these factors increase a woman’s exposure to estrogen and progesterone, he told New York Timeshormones produced by the ovaries that can stimulate cell growth.
Doctors also warned that younger women are often diagnosed with breast cancer later, when the disease may be more difficult to treat.
Screening for the disease is recommended starting at age 40 and continuing every two years until age 74.
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The report also found that while more women are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before, death rates continue to fall.
They said it had decreased by about 44 percent between 1989 and 2022, and that women who were diagnosed with cancer later in life were more likely to die than their younger peers.
The report found that less than 0.1 percent of women diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 20 and 30 died from the disease, but that among those over 80, the mortality rate was one percent. .
This fits into a broader trend of rising cases of colon cancer among young people in the United States that has taken doctors and medical experts by surprise.
Rates among people under age 50 have increased about two percent each year since the early 2000s, and the United States now has the sixth highest rate of early-onset colon cancers in the world.
Initially, doctors blamed rising obesity rates and highly processed diets for the rise in colon cancers among young adults.
But in recent years, as more cases have emerged in healthy, active people and vegetarians, several have switched tracts and now suggest it could be a common substance, such as a food additive, in the environment.
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Last week, Dr. María Abreu, who is on the front lines of the colon cancer crisis, revealed to DailyMail.com two additives that could be behind the increase.
The first was high-fructose corn syrup, a liquid sweetener commonly used in the United States and other countries, which has found its way into many health products because it is cheaper than sugar.
And the other was emulsifiers, used to give foods their creamy texture and often found in healthy foods like low-fat yogurts, cottage cheese and peanut butter.
Breast cancer is a condition that occurs when cells in the breast begin to divide uncontrollably and is diagnosed in more than one in ten women at some point in their lives.
Early warning signs include a new lump in the breast or armpit, a thickening or swelling in the breast, and changes in its shape or size.
Treatment may include surgery to remove the cancer or chemotherapy to eradicate cancer cells from other areas of the body.
