Even as death rates from breast cancer have fallen, rates of new diagnoses continue to tick upwards, according to an American Cancer Society report.
Americans have benefited from huge leaps in breast cancer treatment over the last two decades, but diagnoses are becoming more common, especially among younger women, according to a report published Tuesday by the American Cancer Society.
The new report shows that breast cancer mortality has decreased by 44% since the late 1980s. Rates of breast cancer, however, have increased by 1% every year since 2012. In younger women, rates have increased at a faster clip — by about 1.4% every year since 2021.
“That is very alarming because we know that screening only starts at age 40,” said Dr. Sonya Reid, a breast medical oncologist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, who was not involved with the report. “It’s not just one racial or ethnic group affected, we are seeing it across the board, so it’s hard to link it to ancestral or genetic factors alone.”
We should heat wrap more of our foods in plastics which contain synthetic hormones that act as endocrine disruptors…
…you know what would be funny, if the food and packaging companies were already aware this was a risky thing to do, and kept doing it any because it was cheap!!!
… it’s not like that sort of thing has happened in other industries before, like with leaded petrol, or cigarettes.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Western Governments took care of this stuff, watched out for it.
Have rates increased or just rates of detection? There are many cancers that either the body will fight off eventually, or are so slow growing and that it doesn’t matter if we never detect them as they won’t cause any problems before you die of something unrelated. Detection is important because some deadly cancers are treatable if detected early, but that raises the rate of detection for both deadly and ignorible cancers. Also xray is commonly used to detect breast cancer and that itself causes cancer. Since several thousand lives are saved by xray detection for every person who got cancer from the detection that is a good trade off, but that alone is enough to explain some of the rate increase.
