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Alarming Trend: Rising Cancer Rates Among People Under 50
June 20, 2023
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While cancer is a disease that most commonly affects people over 50 years old, a joint U.S.-UK cancer funding review found that over the past 30 years, there has been a rise in cancer rates among people under 50 in multiple countries. “From our data, we observed something called the birth cohort effect,” Dr. Shuji Ogino,…
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