Kentucky has made gains when it comes to detecting and treating various cancers.
There may be an impression that all kinds of cancers are striking Kentuckians at a younger age all the time. That’s not the case according to the Kentucky Cancer Registry, which is the state’s program to track cancer rates. Tom Tucker is the founding director of the registry.
“Yes, it’s going up in younger people. However that gets defined..people under 65..people under 50. But, it’s also going up in people over 50 or over 65. And so the proportion of people who are younger has remained about the same. It hasn’t really changed in the last 20 years dramatically,” said Tucker.
