Rising Cancer Rates Among Women
Feb. 12
The American Cancer Society recently reported that more Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently. The study also shows Black and Native Americans are dying of some cancers at rates two to three times higher than those among white Americans.
These trends represent a marked change for an illness that has long been considered a disease of aging and which used to affect far more men than women. The shifts reflect declines in smoking-related cancers and prostate cancer among older men and a disconcerting rise in cancer in people born since the 1950s.
This study has also shown that women are also being diagnosed at younger ages.
Rick J. Bold, M.D. joins us on “Arizona Horizon” to discuss these rates and diagnoses.
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