United States: A new report which is from the American Cancer Society shows that nearly 1 million American women will be actually diagnosed with cancer in this year 2025, but the outlook is actually brighter than ever before. Thanks to advances in treatment, cancer is no longer the death sentence it once was.
Just like Princess Kate, who recently has announced that her cancer is in remission and she’s somehow adjusting to a “new normal,” many patients are now living with the disease for like years, which is ultimately finding strength in their journey and in the growing possibilities of recovery.
As reported by USA Today, nonetheless, the research reveals that the frequency of cancer continues to increase even though mortality through cancer has reduced – in women in particular. Other of their findings include middle-aged women, specifically the Princess of Wales aged 43 years, are now slightly more likely to get cancer than male counterparts and quite dramatically, young women are 1.8 times likely to develop cancer than young men.
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” This progress is further offset by the increase in young and middle-aged women who are family carers, and a re-emerging cancer disparity between the sexes, reminiscent of cancer as a predominantly female disease at the start of the 20th century,” commented lead author Rebecca Siegal, Senior Scientific Director of Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society.
These disparities may arise from certain cancer types that are more prevalent, or which solely affect women, according to senior author Dr AHmedin Jemal who is the senior vice president of surveillance and Health Equity for the American Cancer Society.
According to this report, breast cancer incidence has been rising since mid-2000s at an average of one percent per year. One possible reason may be soaring obesity levels and beverage alcohol intake, the agency’s Freeman Jemal speculated. Lack of physical activity and alcohol intake contribute to 7 and 16 percentage of breast cancer respectively.
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Cervical cancer rates also rose in the same age group of women especially in the age bracket of 30 to 44 according to the ACS. Jemal said this may probably be attributed to the low rates of screening and vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV), the main cause of cervical cancer.
In the newly published work, he also found that the rates of uterine corpus cancer, which occurs in the lining of the uterus, have been climbing at the same rate as breast cancer. In the same period, melanoma, and liver cancers, amongst others, rose in women but reduced in men. Therefore, reduced smoking that was always a preserve of men may partly explain some of the reduced cancer incidence among.