Over the last year, when headlines warned of a cancer surge among relatively younger adults, it might have felt personal — especially if you, like Vox health correspondent Dylan Scott (and me), are of the millennial generation and fall under that 50-year-old-ish cutoff. But Dylan’s new piece walks us through why the reality may be more nuanced than we previously thought.
Dylan unpacks new research suggesting that at least some of the rise in early-onset cancer may be less about a true spike in deadly disease and more about how good we’ve gotten at detecting it. This is good news, and his recent story helps you make sense of the more complicated picture that’s emerging.
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