00:00Some cancers are increasing in people under 50, a new report finds.
00:03But what changed between generations to help explain that increase?
00:07The World Cancer Research Fund, a cancer research body, examined 12 cancer types.
00:13Its report covered England, the U.S., and the Netherlands over the past 20 years.
00:18It found that some cancers are increasing among younger people.
00:21These early-onset cancers challenge cancer's long-standing association with old age.
00:26Even so, most cancers still occur in elderly people.
00:30Yet, University of Edinburgh Global Public Health Chair Prof. Devi Sridhar says,
00:35This progress has stalled.
00:37She contrasts that with earlier life expectancy gains and reduced childhood mortality.
00:42And since the centuries turn, some health measures have gone backwards.
00:46Sridhar links increased cancer risk to generational changes in lifestyles and environments.
00:51So the report documents more cancers among younger people.
00:54But exactly which lifestyle and environmental changes explain that increase remains a mystery?
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