Cancer is striking millennials earlier - Siobhan Crummey

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/04/health/obesity-cancer-increase-millennials-study/index.html

A new study done by the American Cancer Society shows horrifying results. These results are saying that the millennials are now getting cancer in earlier ages than any other generation before them. There are 12 cancers related to obesity and 18 common cancers not related to obesity. Although there are recent medical advances in the cancer field, the increasing number of young millennials getting diagnosed with cancer is alarming. Normally, obesity related cancers show up in people that are in their 60s and 70s. However, the millennials that are being diagnosed are as young as 30. The cancers include colorectal, endometrial, gallbladder, kidney, pancreatic and multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.

This relates to history because its making history. Its making history because that generation are some of the youngest people getting diagnosed with obesity-related cancers ever. The audience is Gen Z and millennials, that this is a global epidemic and that basically says to not take on the habits that generations before us might've taken on. The purpose is to inform, and to warn. The point of view is a non-millennial, Sandee LaMotte, a writer for CNN, she she doesn't understand their point of view. This is important because young people are getting cancer and having their opportunities limited at a much younger age.