A Swedish study shows rates of skin cancer are on the decline among young people, bucking a trend of rising cases of some types of the disease, and a pattern that is also being replicated in the UK.
READ MORE: Families of cancer patients face health risk that strikes a year laterDespite fears of a surge of cancers in young people, at least one form of the disease appears to be on the decline among the under-50s.
Tracking data in both men and women from 1990 to 2022, they found that from 2015, cancer rates declined significantly in the under 50s — particularly in women. By the end of the study rates of melanoma had declined to 18 cases per 100,000 women and 10 cases per 100,000 men, declines of 5.2 per cent and three per cent respectively.
In contrast, the study published in the journal JAMA Dermatology, found rates of the disease in general increased among the over 50s during the same period.It can happen abroad or in the UK.Advertisement Dr Hildur Helgadottir an expert in cancer at Karolinska, said: 'We can see a trend break in young adults around 2015 where the incidence curves are falling.'
Another was declining use of sunbeds in Sweden, as well as young people staying in indoors more due to rising use of mobiles and computers. The most recent data, from 2017-2019 shows there about 15 cases per 100,000 people among Brits aged 25-to-49.A similar decrease was also recorded in the under 24s with rates declining from 1.4 cases per 100,000 in 2004-2006 to just under one case per 100,000 in the most recent data round.
For comparison, rates among the over 75s, who account for about half of all cancer cases in the UK, only increased by 9 per cent in the same period.
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