New Delhi: India recorded nearly 12 lakh new cancer cases and 9.3 lakh deaths in 2019, with this the country ranks as the second-highest contributor to the cancer burden in Asia that year, according to a recent Lancet study. There are multiple factors leading to cancer incidences including poor lifestyle, genetics and rising air pollution. Now, a new study published in the journal The Lancet Published Health revealed that Generation X (Gen X) and millennials are at heightened risk of developing 17 cancers as compared to the older generations. The researchers examined the data on over 23 million patients who were diagnosed with 34 types of cancer and over 7 million people who died of 25 types of cancer.
The statistics include adults aged 25 to 84 from 2000 to 2019. For the study, the cancer case rates and the cancer death rates by birth years, separated by five-year intervals from 1920 to 1990 were calculated by the researchers.
Small intestine, kidney and pancreatic cancer cases on the rise
According to the study, the researchers found that the incidence rate for small intestine, kidney and pancreatic cancers was two to three times higher for people born in the early 1990s than in the late 1950s. On the other hand, the researchers also noticed that women born in the late 50s fared better than their millennial counterparts with regards to liver cancer, and oral and throat cancers caused due other factors than human papillomavirus.
About 17 cancers include gastric cardia, small intestine, estrogen receptor-positive breast, ovary, liver and intrahepatic bile duct in women, non-HPV linked oral and pharynx cancers in women, anus, colon, rectal cancers, uterine corpus, gallbladder and other biliary, kidney and renal pelvis, pancreas, myeloma, non-cardia gastric, testis, leukaemia and Kaposi sarcoma.
10 out of 17 cancer cases in the younger birth group
The researchers further noted that 10 out of the 17 cancers showed an increasing rate in younger birth groups linked to obesity. The cancer death rates also showed a spike in younger generations along with the incidence rates for liver cancer among women, uterine corpus, gallbladder, testicular, and colon and rectal cancers.
A new study published in the journal The Lancet Published Health revealed that Generation X (Gen X) and millennials are at heightened risk of developing 17 cancers as compared to the older generations. Health Conditions Health News: Latest News from Health Care, Mental Health, Weight Loss, Disease, Nutrition, Healthcare
