BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS — Over the past three decades, a troubling trend has emerged regarding cancer diagnosis rates on a global scale. More and more adults under the age of 50 are developing various forms of cancer. Scientists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital report the incidence of early onset cancers (cancers detected in individuals younger than 50) all over the world has increased “dramatically” since around 1990.
More specifically, cancers of the breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver, and pancreas have all seen upticks in early onset diagnoses.
In an effort to better understand why this is happening, study authors conducted an extensive set of analyses using data gathered from various sources, including information pertaining to early life encounters that may have influenced this trend.
“From our data, we observed something called the birth cohort effect. This effect shows that each successive group of people born at a later time (e.g., decade-later) have a higher risk of developing cancer later in life, likely due to risk factors they were exposed to at a young age,” says […]
The only opinion I don’t agree with is ‘less exercise’. From what I’ve observed with younger generations over the last few years is increased exercise. I do agree with environmental toxic issues. And organic foods are expensive, which I believe is one of the reasons we’re seeing more home and community gardens.
Many of those choices are related to the region one lives in.