[Trends in cancer incidence in France among the population aged 15 to 39 years and comparison with trends in the older population].
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We present and discuss trends in cancer incidence and mortality among the French population 15 to 39 years of age and 40 years and over, between 1990 and 2023 for incidence and between 1990 and 2022 for mortality. In the population aged 15 to 39 and in recent years, cancer incidence has been increasing among women and has remained relatively stable among men. Changes in incidence for most cancer sites are not specific to the population aged 15 to 39. The most notable exceptions are colorectal cancer, for which the incidence is increasing only in the population aged 15 to 39, and melanoma and lung cancer, for which the incidence is decreasing (respectively since 2010 and 2005) only in this population. The search for the causes of each of these trends must take into account the differences observed between men and women and between age groups. One cannot assume that a given exposure may have contributed to the increasing incidence of a particular cancer without proof that the frequency of this exposure has also increased.