{"id":92155,"date":"2026-07-21T09:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=92155"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:34:26","slug":"australia-has-worlds-highest-under-50-cancer-rate-but-experts-say-theres-an-important-reason-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/07\/21\/australia-has-worlds-highest-under-50-cancer-rate-but-experts-say-theres-an-important-reason-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia has world&#8217;s highest under-50 cancer rate &#8211; but experts say there&#8217;s an important reason why"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA28ksB6.img?w=634&h=423&m=6\" alt=\"Melanoma deaths have significantly dropped in Australia due to heightened awareness, but experts are warning Aussies not to become complacent\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Australia has the highest rate of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">cancer<\/a> diagnoses among people under 50 anywhere in the world, but experts say the alarming figure is partly driven by world-leading screening programs .<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/australia-has-world-s-highest-under-50-cancer-rate-but-experts-say-there-s-an-important-reason-why\/ar-AA28kfTV?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a5f3b50c3db459ea8f16a77af5528b1&ei=23\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Australia has the highest rate of\u00a0cancer diagnoses among people under 50 anywhere in the world, but experts say the alarming figure is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/breast-cancer.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92156,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92155\/revisions\/92156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}