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Sep 19, 2024, 15:46

Hil Moss: Insights from the new AACR Cancer Progress Report

Hil Moss shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Good morning!

You know it’s going to be an interesting day at Team OncoveryCare when the headline on the NPR home page is:

‘Report: Cancer diagnoses are more common but so is surviving.’

I definitely had some good reading material while I drank my coffee this morning …

Today’s news is drawing on the release of the new American Association of Cancer Research Cancer Progress report, which was released last night. Here are a few insights (among many) that stood out to me:

1) In the US, the age-adjusted cancer death rate decreased by 33% (!) between 1991 and 2021 – an incredible feat.

2) Cancer survivors experience higher ‘functional limitations’ than non-survivors, and the proportion of survivors experiencing those limitations has doubled over the course of two decades.

3) Cancer survivors have increased incidence of age-related diseases compared to individuals who do not have a history of cancer — and that’s due to both impacts of therapies, but also changes at the molecular level.

4) We are seeing interesting trends related to age and cancer: on the one hand, this report outlines the precipitous increase in early-onset cancer diagnoses; on the other, it delves into the unique challenges faced by older survivors, such as polypharmacy and rates of loneliness.

Really interested to hear folks’ takeaways.”

Source: Hil Moss/LinkedIn

Hil Moss is the Co-Founder/CEO of OncoveryCare. She is a young breast cancer survivor, Hil is an active advocate, mentor, and writer in the cancer community (published in outlets such as New York Magazine, Cell, and STAT). She has also been a Flare Capital Scholar.