4 troubling cancer trends you must know about in 2025

The American Cancer Society’s annual cancer trends report revealed a mix of news and statistics for 2025.Cancer death rates have dropped 34% between 1991 and 2022, which the ACS attributes to early detection, smoking reduction and improvements in treatment.While these numbers are encouraging, oncologists and cancer specialists still have concerns about some other factors.While the report shows continued progress on many fronts, certain areas remain of “significant concern,” Dr.Joshua Strauss, an attending hematologist and medical oncologist at Advanced Care Oncology and Hematology Associates of the Atlantic Medical Group in Morristown, New Jersey, shared with Fox News Digital.Below are some of the most concerning trends, according to experts.Cancer prevalence in younger individuals and adolescents has continued to rise, according to the report, with rates in teens slowly increasing by 0.7% each year.Cancer is the leading disease-related cause of death among children and adolescents — most commonly leukemia, brain cancer and lymphoma.In 2025, the ACS estimates that 9,550 kids up to 14 years old and 5,140 adolescents aged 15 to 19 will be diagnosed with cancer, and that 1,050 children and 600 adolescents will die.Dr.

Paul Oberstein, a gastrointestinal medical oncologist and section chief of GI Medical Oncology at NYU Langone Perlmutter Cancer Center, reiterated that people below age 50 are seeing higher rates of cancer deaths.“It’s shown in multiple cancers,” he told Fox News Digital.“I would say the biggest finding is in young women with breast cancer.”The prevalence of GI (gastrointestinal) cancers is also increasing among younger adults, including pancreatic and colon cancer.Experts have varying hypotheses on why young people are being diagnosed more often, including diet, exposure to microplastics or other environmental triggers, according to Oberstein.“We don’t have a good explanation, and we need to invest in discovering why thi...