Study: Stomach cancer up in young, white adults
Tuesday, May 4, 2010 - 16:10
in Health & Medicine
(AP) -- Scientists are puzzling over a surprising increase in stomach cancer in young white adults, while rates in all other American adults have declined. Chances for developing stomach cancer are still very low in young adults but the incidence among 25 to 39 year old whites nonetheless climbed by almost 70 percent in the past three decades, a study found.