Independent, UK -- More young adults in the U.S. are getting cancer, and experts don’t know why. A dozen forms of the disease have risen among Americans under the age of 50 over the last decade, according to doctors, with the largest surges in female breast cancer and colorectal cancer.
Oncologists have found that this surge disproportionately affects women with rates of new diagnoses 82 percent higher than in men, according to a January report from American Cancer Society.
The concerning trends come even as overall cancer deaths have plummeted, dropping by 34 percent between 1991 and 2022.
“This is serious and worrisome,” Dr. Shari Goldfarb, a breast cancer doctor at New York City’s Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center, said in a statement.
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