Kimmel and Colbert join each other's shows admin - Latest News - October 1, 2025 admin 12 views 5 secs 0 Comments Kimmel and Colbert join each other’s shows Source link PREVIOUS Sept. 30, 2025, 12:04 PM EDTBy Kaan OzcanNew cases of cancer have been rising among younger people, worrying patients and doctors about causes. A new study suggests increasing numbers of cases of early onset cancer are largely due to improved and more routine screening, while mortality rates among younger people haven’t changed.The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, compared rates of new diagnoses over the past three decades to mortality rates of the fastest-rising cancers in adults under 50. Of the eight cancers the research team studied, only two, colorectal and endometrial, showed increases in deaths. Other cancers included thyroid, anal, pancreatic, kidney, myeloma and small intestine. While breast and kidney cancers have increased in incidence, the mortality rates across all age groups have decreased in recent years.In fact, invasive breast cancer has been increasing faster in women under 50 than women over 50, at around a 1.4% increase per year from 2012 to 2021, according to the American Cancer Society. Similarly, colorectal cancer rates increased 2.4% per year in adults under 50 years and by 0.4% in adults 50-64 from 2012 to 2021. However, deaths have been halved for both because of earlier detection and improved treatment such as immunotherapies.Advances in screening technology and recommended screening at younger ages have allowed doctors to detect tumors at their earliest stages, including cases that may not ever negatively affect a person’s health.Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, senior investigator at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Mass General Brigham hospital and a co-author of the study, said the harder doctors look for cancer, the more they are bound to find. “There really isn’t much more cancer out there,” Welch said. “We’re just finding stuff that’s always been there. That’s particularly true in things like the thyroid and the kidney.”The increase in “diagnostic scrutiny” for cancer adds to the uptick in some cancer case numbers. “Largely, what’s going on here is that people are getting tested more, and they’re getting more, if you will, powerful tests that can resolve smaller and smaller abnormalities,” he said. “This is largely simply unearthing things that have always been there.”Last year, the highly influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force lowered the recommended age for first breast cancer screenings to 40, down from 50. And as deaths from colon cancer among people ages 45 to 49 ticked up, in 2021 the recommended age to start screening dropped from 50 to 45. Dr. Ahmed Jemal, senior vice president for surveillance, prevention and health services research at the American Cancer Society, said rising incidence rates can’t simply be chalked up to more and improved screening. Some of the causes are diet, obesity and physical inactivity.The study also pointed out that unnecessary treatments, such as surgery or radiation or chemotherapy, for cancers that aren’t “clinically meaningful” can cause multiple burdens for younger patients, Jemal said. A clinically meaningful cancer is considered dangerous and could spread if it is untreated. “You create not only cost burden, but you create anxiety,” Jemal said. Dr. Philippe E. Spiess, chief of surgery at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, said the psychosocial aspect of cancer is another significant consequence. “Once a patient physically knows they have a mass, there is a significant burden that you have related to knowing that,” he said.Rather than intervene with every cancer doctors find, Spiess said, it’s important for doctors to assess whether patients’ cancers are dangerous and at risk of harming them. If tumors are small enough to be considered nonlethal, doctors should work with patients to monitor and continually assess their risk.“As long as the patient is committed to observation and surveillance, I think the consideration there is that you’re really not losing anything,” Spiess said.Kaan OzcanKaan Ozcan is an intern with NBC News’ Health and Medical Unit. NEXT Savewith a NBCUniversal ProfileCreate your free profile or log in to save this articleOct. 1, 2025, 5:00 AM EDTBy Adam Edelman and Bridget BowmanThis is not the first time Virginia voters have braced for a government shutdown in a partisan standoff over Obamacare just a few weeks before they elect their next governor. In October 2013, the federal government shut down for 16 days after lawmakers failed to reach a deal to fund it. President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders loudly blamed Republicans in Congress, dubbing it the “tea party shutdown” — and polls showed that the public overwhelmingly agreed. Weeks later, Democrat Terry McAuliffe eked out a narrow win in the Virginia governor’s election, defying a historical trend. In 11 of the last 12 Virginia governor’s races, voters elected the candidate of the party out of power in the White House. The lone exception was in 2013. Fast-forward to the present. Republicans control the White House, the federal government barreled into a shutdown at midnight Wednesday morning, and a race for governor in Virginia is weeks away. Democratic former Rep. Abigail Spanberger has so far led Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in both polling and fundraising.National Republicans are already aggressively casting blame on Democrats, who are pushing to include additional health care money in the government funding bill, for the shutdown. After Spanberger has spent the entire campaign leading in public polls, the new developments raise questions about whether a shutdown could threaten her path to victory — and block the same historical trend that had been working in her favor.“Something like this, depending how [Democrats] respond, could be a big opening” for Republicans, said Jimmy Keady, a Richmond-based Republican consultant. Keady said Republicans “have done a pretty good job” blaming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats more broadly for a shutdown. “You’re going to now have Democrats shutting down the government, and I think that has framed in a way where Republicans can push back on that narrative of who’s actually shutting the government down,” he said.Democrats have pushed for any funding deal to include measures that would extend expiring Obamacare subsidies and to undo President Donald Trump’s Medicaid cuts.Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress, but Democrats have leverage because it takes 60 votes to end debate on legislation in the Senate and the GOP holds 53 seats.Other Republicans expressed more ambiguity about how the blame game might play out in Virginia.”I don’t know how this is going to bounce. I think it depends how long it goes on,” said former Rep. Tom Davis, a Republican who represented a northern Virginia district from 1995 to 2008. Spanberger told NBC News in a statement that the shutdown would hurt Virginia’s economy, blaming Trump and Earle-Sears for the coming damage and connecting a government closure’s impact to the impact of cuts by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency this year.“Virginia families are already feeling the strain of high costs, and Virginia workers and business leaders are deeply worried about the impacts of an impending shutdown and the jobs cuts the Trump Administration is threatening,” Spanberger said. “Virginians are already facing the dire impacts of DOGE, reckless tariffs, and attacks on our healthcare, and now, once again, President Trump is escalating his attacks on Virginia jobs and our economy. And with each new attack, Winsome Earle-Sears refuses to stand up for Virginia’s workforce and economy.”President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House last week.Andrew Harnik / Getty ImagesEarle-Sears blamed Democrats for the looming shutdown, saying in an interview Tuesday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press NOW” that Spanberger should have urged Virginia’s two Democratic senators, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, to agree to Republicans’ funding deal.“I’m hoping that my opponent, Abigail Spanberger, will tell her friends, Senators Kaine and Warner, who are from Virginia, not to shut down our government, to give a continuing resolution that’s clean — to vote for that, because you’re going to put all of those federal workers out of a job,” Earle-Sears said. “My opponent has been speaking about that all summer long, and she needs to come and tell them exactly that: Vote for a clean continuing resolution to keep our federal workers in their jobs.”Davis, the Republican former congressman whose Washington-area district is home to many federal workers, said those voters had already most likely turned on Trump this year after he, through DOGE, moved to shrink the federal workforce.“I think the administration has probably lost a lot of goodwill with federal employees after DOGE and the cuts here,” Davis said. “So in terms of who they’re likely to believe, I think it’s unclear at this point [if] what would ordinarily advantage the Republicans works for them.”A prolonged shutdown would most likely risk adding more strain on federal workers and members of the military, who would go without pay during a government closure. In addition, Trump has threatened to fire federal workers during a shutdown. A longer shutdown might also weigh down a broader U.S. economy that is already exhibiting signs of weakness.But Democrats still have history on their side.“Anything is possible, but you have a group of folks that use these elections in Virginia traditionally in the last 50 years to send a message to the party in the White House,” Davis said.Democrats, meanwhile, appear less concerned about being blamed, with lawmakers, party officials and Spanberger all expressing confidence that voters will view the shutdown as part and parcel of a broader trend of chaos in Washington sown and seeded by the Republicans who control the White House and both chambers of Congress.Still, the real effects federal government shutdowns have in Virginia generate some unpredictability.In an interview in February, around the time of the DOGE job cuts, Spanberger said she quickly learned as a member of Congress how dramatically shutdowns (and near-shutdowns) harmed her constituents.“When there are government shutdowns, Virginia is the most economically impacted state,” she said then. Her time in Congress started in the middle of a 35-day government shutdown during Trump’s first term.”When there’s even a threat of a government shutdown, we would just reiterate how damaging that is, because, in the threat of losing your salary for a small period of time, people don’t take their families out to eat. People don’t stop and buy kids candy at the convenience shop,” she said. “They don’t buy a new microwave if their microwave is on the fritz. That is only more profound at this moment, where people are worried about whether they might lose their job.”Meanwhile, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Earle-Sears’ biggest ally, has been linking the shutdown to national Democratic leaders like Schumer.Still, several Democratic members of Virginia’s congressional delegation were confident that voters would blame Trump for the shutdown and that the frustration would bleed into their feelings about Earle-Sears and other Republicans.“I think people recognize that Donald Trump is the chief chaos agent. So to the extent that there’s chaos, I don’t think it’s a hard sell to convince people that Donald Trump is the genesis of that chaos, and I think that hurts any candidate who’s aligned with Donald Trump, and in Virginia’s case this year that’s Winsome Sears and the Republican ticket,” Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw said.Democratic Rep. Jennifer McClellan said, “You’ve had Abigail Spanberger from Day 1 saying that she would stand up and fight for all Virginians, including those harmed by the actions of the Trump administration.“And you’ve had Winsome Sears, who’s either been silent or cheering Trump on or saying that all these federal workers that live in Virginia being fired is not a big deal,” she said, referring to Earle-Sears’ comments this year playing down the impact of the federal job cuts in Virginia.There are warning signs for both parties in recent polling, including some that underscore difficulties Democrats could face in deflecting blame.A national New York Times/Siena University poll conducted last week found 33% of registered voters say Democrats in Congress and Trump and Republicans in Congress deserve equal blame for a government shutdown. Another 26% say Trump and congressional Republicans would be to blame, while 19% say the same of Democrats in Congress. The poll did find some room for both parties to make their cases, with 21% saying they had not heard enough to weigh in the issue. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., said he had not spoken with Spanberger about a shutdown, but he said that he “can’t imagine that she wants a shutdown” and that voters would be likelier to blame Republicans because “they control the House, they control the Senate, they have the White House.”Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., said a shutdown “helps Democrats, because the Republicans aren’t even in town.” The GOP-controlled House left town after it passed a seven-week government funding bill and is not scheduled to return until Oct. 7.Asked whether he was concerned that Democrats — including Spanberger — would catch blame for a shutdown, Kaine said, “I think Virginians understand who’s at fault for this.”Adam EdelmanAdam Edelman is a politics reporter for NBC News. Bridget BowmanBridget Bowman is a national political reporter for NBC News.Megan Lebowitz contributed.