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By Frank Bergman
September 29, 2024
A renowned American physician is sounding the alarm over skyrocketing numbers of young people being diagnosed with deadly cancers.
Dr. Cynthis Yoshida, a professor at the University of Virginia (UVA), warns that this troubling trend has now “become an epidemic.” Yoshida, who leads UVA’s Health Cancer Center’s Colorectal Cancer Screening Program, is now alerting the public via local media outlets. Scientists, physicians, and oncologists around the world have been reporting that cancer cases have spiked dramatically since 2021.
During an interview with Charlottesville’s 29News, Dr. Yoshida expressed her concerns. “It’s really become an epidemic,” Yoshida warned. “When my patients come in and have the colonoscopies, so many more are asking, ‘What is it that’s causing this rise in early onset cancers?’”
According to Dr. Yoshida, every year 18,000 people under the age of 50 are diagnosed with early-onset cancer. However, the cancers are spreading so rapidly that often these individuals are diagnosed too late to survive. Breast cancer, stomach cancer, colon cancer, and certain blood cancers, are all surging among young people, Yoshida reports. “Which is a tragedy because they’re young when they get the cancer but also, they’re young with advanced disease,” Yoshida said…