Dr. Logan Spector

So a young adult is up to 40.

And, you know, although I always say young adult is always like the limit is a year above my age.

But, you know, I'm 52 now.

So and definitely graying.

So I probably shouldn't go on with that joke.

But anyway, you know, it's been rising for years and by about 50, the rates risen about 50 percent in early onset since the 90s.

And, you know, there have been hints of this or like attention.

But the thing that really got people's attention, all right, was Chadwick Boseman, the Black Panther.

who died in 2020 at the age of 43 of stage three colon cancer.

And, you know, there's a man who was like ostensibly very fit.

I mean, he was a superhero.

And not only a superhero on screen, but I think he filmed like the movie or the second movie while he was in treatment, which is, you know, incredible.

But like 43 and, you know, obviously a very fit and talented man, you know, it's just it was awful.

And then last year or earlier this year, James Van Der Beek, who was in Dawson's Creek and I think Friday Night Lights, you know, he just died at maybe 48.

Unfortunately, these celebrity deaths are kind of what brings public attention to it.

You know, so the rates going up, like I said, I got a paper in front of me looking at U.S.

cancer statistics.

And, you know, it really is in all groups.

There's like a slightly faster increase in non-Hispanic American Indians, but it's not much different.

It really is everyone everywhere.