While increasing age remains a risk factor, researchers found each age group examined saw more diagnoses when comparing data from 1984 to 1988 and 2015 to 2019.
Coalition for Responsible Healthcare Guidelines physicians criticize currency of recommendations from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care.
Proton beam therapy is a more precise treatment that can better focus radiation on a cancer, reducing the side effects of treatment. But it's not available in Canada.