Cancer Incidence And Mortality In Young People Decreases With Increasing Deprivation

Results of research into the associations between cancer and socio-economic deprivation and affluence have shown that, in contrast to cancers in older people, the numbers of new cases and deaths from the disease in teenagers and young adults decrease with increasing deprivation. Researchers also noted increases in the incidence of a number of cancers, including two potentially preventable cancers among younger people: cervical cancer and melanoma.

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