Cancer cases among young people are on the rise worldwide

12.01.2024 14:36

Cancer is increasingly being diagnosed in young people, and the cause is unclear, doctors are sounding the alarm.

American doctors have stated that cancer has ceased to be a disease of elderly people throughout the world.

More and more young people are being diagnosed with cancer, according to the authors of a study published in the journal BMJ Oncology .

Scientists are recording a sharp global increase in the number of cancer patients under the age of 50 in North America, Western Europe and Australia.

Doctors are concerned that cancer patients are getting younger, and some speculate that it could be due to some environmental change, diet, or something else that hasn't been identified yet.

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Experts unanimously repeat that among the patients there are more and more young people who do not conform to the teaching that cancer is a disease of aging.

Trying to find the reason for such a terrifying dynamic leads doctors to a dead end.

Previously, scientists named seven habits that reduce the risk of developing many types of cancer.

Elena Gutyro Author: Elena Gutyro Editor of Internet resources