A cancer doctor has revealed “every new patient” who comes to his clinic is under the age of 45 and has one thing in common.
A cancer doctor has sounded the alarm on a worrying pattern, revealing “every new patient” who comes to his clinic is under the age of 45.
Oncologist Dr Nicholas DeVito, from North Carolina’s Duke University, said he and his colleague have noticed “too many” young people with cancer are attending their clinic, with Dr Devito drawing a connection with junk food.
“While the rates of some types of cancer are declining, several gastrointestinal cancers are on the rise among people under age 50,” he wrote in a piece for STAT News, titled ‘Ultra-processed foods: the tobacco of the 21st century?’”
“Even more worrisome: particularly in bile duct and stomach cancer, the rate increases with each younger generation.”