By Anne Prigent
Published
January 22 at 6:01 p.m.,
updated January 22 at 7:00 p.m.
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DECRYPTION – The number of certain cancers in people under 50 is constantly increasing. The phenomenon worries specialists, who seek to understand its causes.
Cancer in young adults has made a royal entrance into the news with Kate Middelton’s illness. But behind the society column lies a reality that increasingly worries experts: between 1990 and 2019, the number of cases of cancer among those under 50 increased by almost 80%, according to an international study published in 2023. in the British Medical Journal ! And between 2022 and 2050, the number of new cases of cancer and deaths among those under 40 is expected to increase by another 12%, according to another publication last December in the medical journal Lancet Oncology .
In France, recalls the World Health Organization, around 15,000 people between 20 and 40 years old will be affected by cancer in 2022. « It is still imperceptible at the moment but the constant progression lets us predict a tsunami for which we must prepare. We can (all things being equal…
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