{"id":20157,"date":"2025-01-16T12:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20157"},"modified":"2025-01-16T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T13:24:43","slug":"cancers-new-face-younger-and-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20157","title":{"rendered":"Cancer\u2019s New Face: Younger and Female"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-79rysd e1wiw3jv0\">Although long considered a disease of aging, certain cancers are turning up more often in younger women, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.org\/statistics-2025.html\" title rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">American Cancer Society reported<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And despite overall improvements in survival, Black and Native Americans are dying of some cancers at rates two to three times higher than those among white Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">These trends represent a marked change for an illness that has long been considered a disease of aging, and which used to affect far more men than women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The shifts reflect declines in smoking-related cancers and prostate cancer among older men and a disconcerting rise in cancer in people born since the 1950s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"Dropzone-1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, but the leading cause among Americans under 85. The new report projects that some 2,041,910 new cases will occur this year and that 618,120 Americans will die of the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Six of the 10 most common cancers are on the rise, including <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/01\/health\/breast-cancer-young-women.html\" title>cancers of the breast<\/a> and the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/17\/health\/uterine-cancer-black-women.html\" title>uterus<\/a>. Also on the rise are <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/28\/well\/live\/colon-and-rectal-cancers-rising-in-young-people.html\" title>colorectal cancers among people<\/a> under 65, as well as prostate cancer, melanoma and pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1336jj\">\n<div class=\"css-121kum4\">\n<div class=\"css-171d1bw\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"css-asuuk5\">\n<div class=\"css-7axq9l\" data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript\">\n<div data-testid=\"optimistic-truncator-noscript-message\" class=\"css-6yo1no\">\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\">We are having trouble retrieving the article content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-3kpklk\">Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-1dv1kvn\" id=\"optimistic-truncator-a11y\">\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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The new report projects that some 2,041,910 new cases will occur this year and that 618,120 Americans will die of the disease.Six of the 10 most common cancers are on the rise, including cancers of the breast and the uterus. Also on the rise are colorectal cancers among people under 65, as well as prostate cancer, melanoma and pancreatic cancer.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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