Rebecca Shatsky: The rising burden of early-onset cancers in younger generations

Rebecca Shatsky shared on X:

“We’ve known and have been tracking that cancers are being diagnosed younger and younger for 20+ years now. Now it’s time to start addressing population-wide early childhood exposures to carcinogens, diet, obesity and alcohol to start changing this!

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Rebecca Shatsky is an Associate Professor at UC San Diego Health, Breast Medical Oncology Co-Team Leader, Scientific Director of the Inflammatory and Triple Negative Breast Cancer Program. She is a member of the NCCN guideline panel for Genetic/High-Risk Assessment of Breast, Ovarian and Pancreatic Cancer and the panel for the treatment of Cancer-Associated Pain.

Her work has been published in JAMA Oncology, Cancer Cell and Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, among others. Dr. Shatsky is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.