With rising cancer rates in younger adults, experts emphasize better tests Screening procedures like colonoscopies and mammograms are still ‘vastly underutilized’

https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/18/with-rising-cancer-rates-in-younger-adults-experts-emphasize-better-tests/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8NAvSgNcVEMnh9cP0uIiZRw_Q-GnQ6LEa-HVgT1WWxDBc4XbLN8DZ8KpVLd63Yz-XsCGBjucI4DTM8IID91Nguo0A17g&_hsmi=334357151&utm_content=334357151&utm_source=hs_email Why are more young people getting cancer? With cancer rates among people under age 50 on the rise, researchers and health care executives discussed efforts to detect cancers earlier and save lives at the Milken Institute’s Future of Health Summit last week. While expanded screenings can explain some of the uptick in cancer prevalence, these procedures are very underutilized. Black women, for example, have a lower incidence of breast cancer than white women but 40% higher chance of dying from it. “We need to break the stigma of cancer, because right now, what was science fiction is becoming science reality in a clinic next door,” said Mohit Manrao, the head of U.S. oncology at AstraZeneca, referring to recent advances in screening and treatment. Read more about this panel. https://www.cancer.org/research/acs-research-news/breast-cancer-death-rates-are-highest-for-black-women-again.html?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8EgLKRoKqcsAo8qM4uFHxO5KWMogUaDwHWaGc39AI4ldPkvlGYiq6PbqzzGNXdZe6gWRtzWqaSzkeea7WwBC5b9TNeVA&_hsmi=334357151&utm_content=334357151&utm_source=hs_email