{"id":181615,"date":"2024-01-28T18:24:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T00:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/doctors-alarmed-by-young-people-getting-cancer-at-unprecedented-rates"},"modified":"2024-01-28T18:24:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T00:24:46","slug":"doctors-alarmed-by-young-people-getting-cancer-at-unprecedented-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/doctors-alarmed-by-young-people-getting-cancer-at-unprecedented-rates","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Alarmed by Young People Getting Cancer at Unprecedented Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-alarmed-by-young-people-getting-cancer-at-unprecedented-rates2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People below the age of 50 are getting cancer more than ever before \u2014 and doctors are stumped as to why.<\/p>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/health\/healthcare\/cancer-young-people-doctors-baffled-49c766ed\" class=\"\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a>, the shocking 2020 death of beloved actor Chadwick Boseman, who died of colorectal cancer at only 43 years old, seemed to wake the public up to the growing trend that researchers had been warning about for a decade prior.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cColorectal cancer was the canary in the coal mine,\u201d mused cancer epidemiologist Timothy Rebbeck of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Soon after, there was seemingly an explosion of all different types of cancers, many of which deal with or are near the gastrointestinal tract: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/actor-adan-canto-died-of-appendiceal-cancer-at-age-42-heres-what-to-know-about-the-disease-223706820.html\" class=\"\">appendix<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/langas\/article\/PIIS2468-1253(23)00039-0\/fulltext\" class=\"\">pancreatic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7071806\/\" class=\"\">stomach<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cureus.com\/articles\/186086-endometrial-adenocarcinoma-in-young-women-a-case-report-and-review-of-literature#!\/\" class=\"\">uterine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People below the age of 50 are getting cancer more than ever before \u2014 and doctors are stumped as to why. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the shocking 2020 death of beloved actor Chadwick Boseman, who died of colorectal cancer at only 43 years old, seemed to wake the public up to the growing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}