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📢 文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 Rising rates of cancer in young people prompt hunt for environmental culprit That many of the cancers are gastrointestinal offers clues and could point to microplastics. Financial Times Disease control 7 August, 2024 | 692 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆ The idea of cancer as predominantly a disease of old age is beginning to creak. An analysis last year showed that, in the G20 group of industrialised nations, rates of several cancers are rising faster among the young than among the old. Now, scientists at the American Cancer Society have confirmed the trend across a wider range of cancers, with statistics broadly suggesting that a Gen X or Millennial is more likely to develop certain types of the disease than her Baby-boomer parents. Half of the 34 types studied showed a “birth cohort effect”, meaning they are increasingly common among successively younger cohorts. For pancreatic and kidney cancer, for example, the incidence
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