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What’s behind the rapid rise of cancer in the under-50s?

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Ian Sample speaks to the Guardian’s health editor, Andrew Gregory, about the worrying global rise in cancers in under-50s, and hears from Yin Cao, an associate professor in surgery and medicine at Washington University in St Louis, who is part of a team conducting a huge study into why young people are developing bowel cancer at record rates. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
7 Mar 2024 English United Kingdom Science · Nature

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