Los Angeles, Ca
Orange County leads Southern California in cancer rates among 18 to 49-year-olds: report
Despite the median age of a cancer diagnosis being 66 years old, with the risk of disease increasing as people age, new data reveals a troubling trend of people under 50 years old developing certain cancers.
Cancer survivor Juliette Landgrave was 38 years old when she found a lump in her breast and her life was turned upside down.
“At the beginning of my journey, people would tell me I was too young to have cancer,” she said.
Now, a concerning new report from City of Hope’s Orange County Lennar Foundation Cancer Center released Tuesday found that cancer rates among people aged 18-49 are surging at higher rates than previous generations, led in part by a rise in colorectal and breast cancers.
“If we see the trend that we’re seeing right now of people under 50 being diagnosed with colon cancer, by 2030 it will be a leading cause of death in young adults in the U.S.,” said Dr. Edward Kim, Physician in Chief at City of Hope Orange County.
Perhaps even more alarming is that Orange County is leading the Southern California region with that frightening statistic, according to data from the National Cancer Institute.
In the last year alone, 18% of cancer patients cared for at City of Hope were under the age of 50.
“I honestly had to take a break in my office because I gave bad news to three patients in their early 30s in a row which honestly was a first for me,” said Dr. Amanda Schwer, a radiation oncologist at City of Hope Orange County.
Health experts are now emphasizing the importance of not only getting regular screenings, but also being aware of symptoms.
Cancer screenings are now recommended for people as young as 40 years old and earlier for those in at-risk communities.
As for Landgrave, she says it’s imperative that younger women stay vigilant about their health.
“To the women in our community, please perform regular self-breast exams,” she said.
While Orange County is outpacing other counties in the region, the cancer diagnosis rate is still lower than the national average, KTLA’s Carlos Saucedo reports.
Four months after federal agents searched his home and office as part of an investigation into a controversial artificial intelligence contract, Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho has resigned. News that Carvalho was submitting his resignation to the LAUSD Board of Education broke late Sunday evening, with a board spokesperson confirming the development […]
Two men were killed in a high-speed crash on Mulholland Highway in Calabasas over the weekend, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The driver, 45-year-old Omri Moalem, was heading south in a gray Porsche 2-door convertible near Dry Canyon Cold Creek Road before 7:30 p.m. on June 20 when he lost control, authorities […]
Los Angeles, Ca
L.A. Tenants Union trying to save business owner given eviction notice ‘without reason or discussion’
The Los Angeles Tenants Union (LATU) is trying to save a Highland Park business after they say the owner was given 60 days notice to vacate “without any reason or discussion.”
The tenants union says that Junior’s Discount Party Supply, has been owned by Silvia Flores for 20 years and that the store, located on York Boulevard, is “known and loved by thousands of community members who utilize her crucial services for party rentals, general household items and to send money transfers.”
“Her legacy small business has been successful and has supported her family,” LATU says.
That legacy is now at risk, however, as LATU says the building was purchased this past month, meaning Flores and four neighboring businesses were issued 60-day eviction notices.
“[The] 60-day eviction notice [terminates] her tenancy of two decades without reason or discussion,” LATU said in a statement tied to a petition to keep the store open. “Silvia has not violated any clause of her lease nor has she fallen behind on rent payments. In fact, the new property owner has not even introduced himself to the woman who he intends to uproot from her business and the community.”
LATU listed the new owner as Dr. Donald Abrahm and his real estate investment company AEA Investments VIII, LLC. They also said that the idea of pushing out “legacy businesses without a care for people or neighborhood[s]” is nothing new.
“In addition to causing Silvia, a low-income immigrant mother and grandmother, to lose her livelihood, this eviction will further accelerate gentrification in Highland Park. This is just one example of a war on commercial tenants,” the union said. “Displacement of tenants, whether residential or commercial, is an issue that too many of us have faced and we refuse to be complicit. Although this eviction is technically legal, it is unjust and inhumane.”
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