Kate’s Cancer Diagnosis Is Part Of An Alarming Global Trend

Cancer is increasingly happening in adults under 50 years of age. That's why medical oncologist, Jalal Baig, was not as shocked about Kate Middleton's recent revelation of her cancer diagnosis at the age of 42 as the rest of the world. Baig told CNN that early-onset cancer - defined as happening in adults under 50 years of age - is no anomaly but rather a part of a rising global trend in which newly diagnosed cancer patients are getting younger.

Kimmie Ng, a medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, told The Boston Globe last year, that the jarring increase in gastrointestinal cancers is connected to the risks associated with a person’s birth year saying “People born in 1990 have over double the risk of getting colon cancer compared to those born in 1950. And quadruple the risk of getting rectal cancer.

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