Doctor diagnosing patientA new study, published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that a rare form of cancer – appendix cancer, or appendiceal adenocarcinoma – is as much as three times as common among Gen X, born between 1965 and 1980, as it is among those born in the ’40s.But for older millennials who were born in the ’80s (millennials were born between 1981-1996), the rates were more than four times higher. The NHS’s Health Research Authority describes appendix cancer as a “rare and understudied” disease, with the Christie NHS Foundation Trust explaining it accounts for 0.4% of all cancers of the bowel. But what is appendix cancer, how do you spot it, and why might it be on the rise?Appendix cancer can be hard to diagnose Appendiceal adenocarcinoma, the most common form of appendix cancer, can often develop “without developing symptoms,” the