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Generation X will experience higher rates of cancer than earlier generations


At age 60 members of Generation X, defined as people born between 1965 and 1980, are projected to have higher rates of cancer than Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964. The US modelling study, published online in JAMA OpenNetwork, 10 June, revealed that, among Generation X men, declines in lung, liver, and gallbladder cancers

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