New Delhi: A study led by experts at the American Cancer Society discovered that Generation-X and millennials born between 1965-1985 and 1986-1995 are more likely to suffer from various forms of cancers. Researchers found that people born in this 30-year window can develop 17 many types of tumour as compared to their predecessors. This group of people, known as post-Baby Boomer generations, are likely to develop pancreatic, liver and breast cancer. Researchers said that while obesity is to blame for it, experts are till date unsure of what is causing the surge.
Rearchers said that people in this 30-year window have unique clinical, economic, social and political environments which affects exposure to cancer risk factors during developing years. However, they stated that they are still unsure of what is contributing to the rise. This comes after an analysis by Cancer Research UK discovered that cancer cases are on the rise in people aged 50 or less partly because of unhealthy lifestyle. For this, researchers obtained data of 23,654,000 diagnosed with 34 forms of cancer from 2009 to 2019. Experts also received data from 7,348,137 people who died from 25 various forms of cancer.
Patients aged 25 to 84 were split into groups depending on their birth year from 1920 to 1990. It was found that millennials and gen X were thrice as likely to develop many forms of cancer as compared to Boomers. These include:
Gastric cardia and non-cardiac gastric cancer – a type of stomach cancer
Ovarian cancer
Cancer of small intestine
Gallbladder and other bile duct cancers
Kidney cancer
Cancer of the renal pelvis
Leukaemia
Anal cancer
Pancreatic cancer
Myeloma
Bowel and rectal cancer
Uterine corpus cancer
Testicular cancer
Non-HPV-associated mouth and pharyngeal cancer – in women
Kaposi sarcoma in men
Oestrogen receptor-positive breast cancer
Liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer – in women
Researchers also noted that the rates of cancer have been increasing with every successive cohort bornn from 1920 for eight to 34 forms of cancer. The rates of cancer were twice or thrice as higher than people born in the 1950s for kidney, pancreatic, small intestinal cancers for both men and women, and for liver cancer in only women. After a dip in older generations, some forms of cancers surged among younger populations. These include:
Uterine cancer
Breast cancer
Non-cardia gastric cancer
Bowel cancer
Ovarian cancer
Anal cancer
Kaposi sarcoma
Testicular cancer
Gallbladder cancer
Uterine cancer in specific lead to a 169% surge in cases in this group. Mortality rate increased in younger people for bowel, liver, gallbladder, testicular and uterine cancers.
For this, researchers obtained data of 23,654,000 diagnosed with 34 forms of cancer from 2009 to 2019. Experts also received data from 7,348,137 people who died from 25 various forms of cancer. Health News Health News: Latest News from Health Care, Mental Health, Weight Loss, Disease, Nutrition, Healthcare
