{"id":402407,"date":"2025-11-25T00:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/402407\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:16:49","slug":"u-s-cancer-diagnoses-reach-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/402407\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Cancer Diagnoses Reach Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The number of Americans told they have cancer has reached a record high of almost one in 10. A new <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/698108\/nearly-one-adults-report-having-cancer.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20The%20percentage%20of%20U.S.%20adults,2015%2C%20before%20starting%20to%20climb.&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/698108\/nearly-one-adults-report-having-cancer.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20The%20percentage%20of%20U.S.%20adults,2015%2C%20before%20starting%20to%20climb.\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/698108\/nearly-one-adults-report-having-cancer.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20The%20percentage%20of%20U.S.%20adults,2015%2C%20before%20starting%20to%20climb.\">Gallup<\/a> poll has revealed that 9.7 percent of people have been told at some point in their lives by a nurse or doctor that they have it. It comes despite the number of cancer fatalities dropping. The two combine to form a sliver of optimism, with more people alive who have received diagnoses being driven by higher survival rates. Lung cancer has seen a decline as smoking rates drop, but cancers linked to obesity have increased, as have types of colorectal cancer among younger people. The number of people who had a diagnosis in 2007\/8, when Gallup started gathering the data, was around seven percent and remained so until 2014\/15. The rate of people who have received a diagnosis increases with older age brackets, with 21.5 percent of those at age 65 and over having done so, <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/11\/24\/cancer-diagnosis-americans-gallup-one-in-ten&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/11\/24\/cancer-diagnosis-americans-gallup-one-in-ten\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/11\/24\/cancer-diagnosis-americans-gallup-one-in-ten\">Axios<\/a> reports. The U.S. also has an aging population, which could further increase the percentage of the population with a diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-it-at-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/698108\/nearly-one-adults-report-having-cancer.aspx#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20The%20percentage%20of%20U.S.%20adults,2015%2C%20before%20starting%20to%20climb.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Read it at Gallup<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of Americans told they have cancer has reached a record high of almost one in 10.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":402408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[235,210,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-402407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-cancer","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115607466402540978","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}