Western’ Food And Alcohol Are To Responsible For The 79% Increase In Cancer In Persons Under 50
Put it down to burgers and alcohol. According to new research, red meat, salt, and alcohol could be blamed for the continuous rise in cancer diagnoses among young people. An analysis of data from 1990 and 2019 found a 79% increase in the number of new cancer diagnoses among those under 50 over the course of three decades, according to a report published Tuesday in BMJ Oncology. The researchers examined the number of new cases, deaths, subsequent health effects, and risk factors for adults aged 14 to 49 using information from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 project, which examined the prevalence of 29 malignancies in 204 countries or regions. According to a group of researchers from Zhejiang University School of Medicine and University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute, there were 3.26 million early-onset cancer diagnoses cases in that age range in 2019 alone, a rise of 79.1% since 1990. The study’s authors also noticed a 27.7% increase in cancer-related mortality since 1990. Some...