Cancers in people under the age of 50, previously extremely rare, are on the increase. “They have almost doubled,” says Solange Peters, head of medical oncology at the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in western Switzerland. In her view, this is “an alarming sign”.
“In the over-65s, the number of cases is increasing, but this is due to the ageing of the population,” she told 24 heures newspaper on Thursday. …
what kind of statement is this? Do you think there’s loads of people running round with cancer they never know about? Does cancer have no symptoms?
Many people who are found to have cancer later in age could have been detected earlier. When they are detected earlier, it makes it seem like more people are getting cancer sooner, when in fact all that’s changed is the detection.
Like I say I’m not challenging that the statement is wrong, just that the information alone doesn’t necessarily give the complete picture.