Data from 23,654,000 people with 34 distinct cancer diagnoses were examined in the study. Data from 7,348,137 fatalities from 25 cancers were also included.
Data from this sample group came from people who passed away between 2000 and 2019 after receiving a diagnosis. They found that Millennials and Gen Xers were more likely to get 17 out of 34 cancers:
- small intestine
- cardia gastric
- ovary
- estrogen receptor-positive breast
- non-HPV-associated oral and pharynx (in females)
- liver and intrahepatic bile duct (in females)
- Kaposi sarcoma (in males)
- anus (in males)
- colorectal cancer
- endometrial cancer
- gallbladder and other biliary
- pancreas
