Younger generations may be aging faster than their predecessors, and this may be linked to a rise in early-onset cancers, a new study suggests.
There have been recent increases in the rates of some cancers among adults under 50, including breast, colorectal, kidney and uterine cancers. One 2023 paper suggests that these early-onset cancer diagnoses rose by 25% globally between 1990 and 2019, and scientists are still investigating why.
