Women Under 50 Are 82% More Likely to Diagnose Cancer Than Men
Jan 20, 2025
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The American Cancer Society (ACS) published this finding by conducting a study on the assumption of new cancer outbreaks and deaths by gender in the United States.
The research team analyzed data from the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) since 1973 and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 1995.
As a result, women under 50 years of age were 82% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than men of the same age.
Prior to this, it is known that the incidence of cancer in women aged 50 to 64 has already surpassed that of men.
The research team expressed concern that `the overall cancer mortality rate is on the decline, but the cancer mortality rate among women and young people is increasing.'
These results can be attributed to the increased diagnosis of breast cancer, thyroid cancer, lung cancer, and cervical cancer.
On the other hand, for men under the age of 50, the diagnosis of melanoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and prostate cancer, a type of skin cancer, showed a decline.
In response, Dr. Richard Barakat of Northwell Health Cancer Institute told the New York Post that lifestyle changes are likely a major factor.
For example, in breast cancer, American women tend not to have older births or children, which misses the effect of preventing breast cancer from pregnancy and breastfeeding, Dr. Barakat explained.
Excessive alcohol consumption by American women is also affecting breast cancer rates, he added.
In addition, lung cancer in the younger age group is also a carcinoma in which women overtake men.
Although lung cancer diagnoses decreased overall from 2012 to 2021, women under 65 outnumbered men in the same age group in the number of newly diagnosed patients.
Dr. Barakat estimated that "This may be because women who start smoking later than men have lower rates of smoking cessation."
In fact, since 1965, the smoking rate of women has decreased by about 59%, while that of men has decreased by 66%.
Cervical cancer is also showing a worrisome increase.
For women between the ages of 30 and 44, who had been in decline for decades thanks to the HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine, cervical cancer diagnoses increased by 11% between 2013 and 2021.
Dr. Barakat said that increasing reluctance to get vaccinated may be the cause of some women avoiding vaccination.
He stressed that `if everyone who needs to be vaccinated is vaccinated and screening guidelines are followed, cervical cancer is likely to be eradicated.'
In addition, the study found that cancer survival in the United States is increasing, and the national mortality rate decreased by 34% from 1991 to 2022.
However, the mortality rate from oral cancer, pancreatic cancer, uterine cancer, and liver cancer is increasing.
Meanwhile, the researchers estimated that 2.041,910 people in the United States will be diagnosed with new cancer (about 5,600 people per day) by 2025. Among them, 1,053,250 were expected to be men and 988,660 were women. Cancer deaths were expected to be 618,120 (about 1,700 per day), with 323,900 men and 294,220 women.
In addition, in 2025, the number of new diagnoses of women's ductal intraepithelial carcinoma will increase by about 59,080 and the number of new diagnoses of melanoma in the skin epithelium will increase by 107,240.
The researchers said cancer diagnoses could increase as imaging technology improves and diagnostic tools become widely available.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
