Exploring the exposome's impact on cancer risk, researchers analyze factors like diet, inactivity, air pollution, and stress while advocating for lifestyle changes and preventive measures to reduce cancer incidence, especially in younger generations.
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
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