re: It seems I know a lot more women getting cancer these days - and it's an alarming increase

My wife works on a unit at the hospital that handles breast/ovarian cancer. She will tell you that the number of young women in their 20's and 30's showing up with advanced breast cancer is increasing.

One possible contributing factor is birth control. All the doctors talk about it but are hesitant to really push that narrative. Breast cancer is triggered by hormones and certain birth controls have hormones in them.