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The shocking announcement that the Princess of Wales is battling cancer comes amid rising cancer rates across the United States, particularly among younger adults.
Data suggests that nearly 40 percent of Americans will develop the disease during their lifetime, while one in five diagnosed will die from the disease.
Men were at higher risk overall: 41.9 percent were diagnosed with cancer before they died, with lung, colon, breast and prostate cancers the most common.
Kate Middleton, 42, revealed her diagnosis on Friday and said she was receiving preventive chemotherapy.
Kate Middleton posted a video online where she revealed her cancer diagnosis and that she was receiving preventative chemotherapy.
Estimates of lifetime cancer risk (or the risk of developing cancer before you die) were calculated by the American Cancer Society, which analyzed data on millions of cases reported to the US national registry.
To estimate a person’s lifetime risk of cancer, the team analyzed national rates of each type of disease between 2017 and 2019.
The ACS noted online that estimates would vary from person to person depending on their risk factors.
This could include whether they are obese, have a family history of cancer, or how often they exercise.
Overall, the results suggested that men are more likely to develop prostate cancer: 12.9 percent.
Lung cancer was the second most common, with an estimated 6.3 percent having the disease, and colon cancer was third, with 4.3 percent.
For women, the cancer they were most at risk for was breast cancer: an estimated 13 percent of women were diagnosed with the disease before they died.
As in men, lung cancer was also the second most common (5.9 percent) and colon cancer the third (3.9 percent).
In both groups, Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer of the lymphatic system) was the least common: 0.2 percent of both sexes had it.
The analysis, based on data from the National Cancer Institute, did not break down the risk of cancer diagnosis by age.
But separate data show that people ages 65 to 74 are most at risk: nearly 30 percent of cancers diagnosed in this age group.
They are followed by people between 55 and 64 years old, who represent 24.1 percent of the cases.
At the other end of the scale, people under 20 and those aged 20 to 34 were least at risk, accounting for up to 2.7 per cent of cases.
But this trend is changing rapidly as young people face a mysterious epidemic of stomach and colon cancers.