Breaking: Scientists fear a global cancer epidemic amongst people aged 50 or less.

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Cancers in young individuals, under the age of 50, have increased alarmingly according to a recent study published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology . A group of scientists led by Harvard University has drawn up a long list of 14 different cancer families whose incidence increased in people under 50 between 2000 and 2012.

“ We calculated that this risk increases with each generation. For example, people born in 1960 have a greater risk of getting cancer before their 50th birthday than those born in 1950, and we predict that this risk will continue to increase in future generations ,” explains Suji Ogino, physician and member of the research team.

The suspected lifestyle and diet
According to Harvard scientists, this disturbing trend, to the point that it is suspected of being an " emerging global epidemic ", would take root in the Western way of life and diet that has imposed itself in many countries of the world. world. The exposome, ie all the factors to which we are exposed during our life and which influence our health, changed from the middle of the 20th century .

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