Cancer mystery as cases rise among younger people around the world

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Insight Health

The number of people under 50 with cancer is increasing in many countries and for many different tumour types. Why this is occurring isn't entirely clear, but may be due to some people eating more processed red meat

By Clare Wilson

A scanning electron micrograph of cancer cells in the intestine

When it comes to cancer research, we regularly hear good news about the number of people benefiting from advances in treatment. But there is one bad news story about the condition that gets little attention. For three decades, there has been a gradual rise in the number of people under 50 being diagnosed with cancer – and we don’t entirely know why.

The rise is steepest in bowel cancer, but an increase in incidences is happening with tumours of nearly …

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