This means that for people under 50, women get cancer more often than men—about 82% more often. This is mostly because breast and thyroid cancers are becoming more common in women, while cancer rates...

For the first time in 2021, more women under 65 got lung cancer than men under 65, likely because women started smoking later and had a harder time quitting compared to men.

Between 2001 and 2018, rates of breast, colorectal, and uterine cancers rose significantly among U.S. women aged 20 to 49, with the fastest increases occurring in women under 30, especially White women aged 20–24 for colorectal cancer and Hispanic women aged 25–29 for uterine cancer.