From breast cancers to blood, and bone marrow to gastrointestinal, and reproductive organ tumors, early-onset cancers have become nearly epidemic in younger age groups: a whopping 30% for myelomas alone, and 45% for colorectal cancers.
In the adolescent and young adult ages spanning 15 to 39, the rates have gone up 20%. And the worst part of all is that experts can’t seem to pinpoint why. One suspected cause is more aggressive screening and earlier detection which, according to Archie Bleyer, a clinical research professor at the Knight Cancer Institute of the Oregon Health & Science University, could be resulting in overdiagnosis.
In other words, Bleyer wonders whether some cases are being diagnosed much earlier than they used to be when the bodily part in question never may have been diagnosed as cancer at all, had it simply been left alone.
According to The Hill, Bleyer says “the screenings have detected tumors and masses in those organs that ‘look like cancer, so they’ve got to call it carcinoma … they ‘would never have been a problem if they were never picked up,’ because they typically wouldn’t spread or progress … so in some ways, it’s a false increase.’”
In other cases, experts suspect the prevalence of chronic conditions and lifestyle factors like obesity, diet, diabetes, and sedentary lifestyles may be to blame.
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Publish Date: 2023-06-19 19:58:51