Gen X, Millennials face higher risk of cancer than previous generations, study shows
Gen X, Millennials face higher risk of cancer than previous generations, study shows
Generation X and millennials face a higher risk of getting certain types of cancer when compared to earlier generations, according to a large new study published Wednesday.
In the study, published in the Lancet Public Health journal, researchers from the American Cancer Society (ACS) studied 34 of the most common cancers. They found that cancer incidence rates continued to rise in progressively younger generations in 17 of the cancers, including breast, pancreatic and gastric cancers.
For eight of the 17 cancers, researchers found that cancer incidence rates rose for each successive birth cohort since 1920. For nine of them, incidence rates increased in younger cohorts, after first declining in older birth cohorts.
“These findings add to growing evidence of increased cancer risk in post-Baby Boomer generations, expanding on previous findings of early-onset colorectal cancer and a few obesity-associated cancers to encompass a broader range of cancer types,” Hyuna Sung, lead author of the study, said in a statement.
The study highlighted the need to identify and address the “underlying risk factors in Gen X and Millennial populations” to explain and address these rising cancer rates in younger generations, said Ahmedin Jemal, a senior author of the study.
“Birth cohorts, groups of people classified by their birth year, share unique social, economic, political, and climate environments, which affect their exposure to cancer risk factors during their crucial developmental years,” Sung added.
Combination of obesity and environmental toxins. The Norwegian health authority has basically said that it's no longer safe to eat fish unless it's white fish caught in the Barents sea, and the rest is trash because of heavy metals and micro plastic.
This is one of the things about modern times. fish is dangerous to eat. fish. fish is leterally what civilization is built on. forget farming thats more supplemental. its fish.
1920 birth cohorts. this sounds like its been rising for everything past the ww2 generation.
“Birth cohorts, groups of people classified by their birth year, share unique social, economic, political, and climate environments, which affect their exposure to cancer risk factors during their crucial developmental years,”
LMAO it's just obesity.
I was thinking microplastic, but obesity sounds like a bigger deal.