Esophageal cancer rates among middle-aged Americans nearly doubled from 2012 to 2017, researchers say, though they remained the same in older and younger age groups

Esophageal cancer rates among middle-aged Americans doubled over five years

Esophageal cancer rates among middle-aged Americans have skyrocketed in what one expert calls an ‘alarming’ finding. An abstract published last month for the Digestive Disease Week 2022 conference at Bethesda, Marylandshows that esophageal cancer rates among Americans aged 45 to 64 almost doubled during the period from 2012 to 2017. Researchers have not yet determined …

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