Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel explains how early detection for breast cancer has improved with the help of artificial intelligence and discusses the factors contributing the rise in stress in America. Although breast cancer deaths have been declining for decades in the U.
S., diagnoses have been on the uptick among women 50 and younger. That's according to a new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) — Breast Cancer Statistics, 2024.
The good news is that since 1989, breast cancer mortality has declined overall by 44% — but diagnoses of the disease have been rising by 1% each year between 2012 and 2021. BREAST CANCER SCREENINGS MAY DECLINE FOR WOMEN WHO RECEIVE FALSE-POSITIVE TEST RESULTS, SAYS STUDY The biggest spike was seen among women younger than 50 (1.4% per year) and Asian-American/Pacific-Islander women (up to 2.
7% per year), the report revealed. The findings were published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Although breast cancer deaths have been declining for decades in the U.
S., diagnoses have been on the uptick among women 50 and younger. (iStock) "Although the breast cancer death rate has declined by 44% thanks to advances in early detection and treatment, the continued increase in breast cancer incidence may slow progress in the future," lead author Angela Giaquinto, associate scientist in cancer surveillance research at the ACS, told Fox News Digital.
That is especially the case among women younger than 50 , she said, whose rate.