Gen X faces higher cancer rates than any previous generation – The Breast Cancer Research Foundation

The Breast Cancer Research Foundation shared on LinkedIn:

“A major new study revealed that Gen X faces higher cancer rates than any previous generation. In a recent article from Scientific American, researchers are investigating the potential contributing factors to this alarming trend.

In the article, Dr. Andrew Chan of Harvard Medical School noted, ‘It’s very clear to us that cancer is evolving from a disease which has traditionally been considered a disease of aging to one which affects, really, all age groups. We need to develop more precision prevention approaches where we start to understand better who’s at risk in the general population and to start to target our efforts more directly to those people to make more headway.’

That’s why one of our key priorities is to fuel research for this exact purpose: if we can better identify who is at risk and then intervene with targeted prevention methods, we can effectively slow–and ultimately one day reverse–incidence trends.”

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Source: The Breast Cancer Research Foundation/LinkedIn