Nature: Why are so many young people getting cancer? What the data say (Pre-Covid19)

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The increase of early onset cancers is pretty ubiquitous. Here is talk of it from last years discussing, amount other sources, the very large Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019 study, looking at 29 cancers in 204 countries and regions. It predicts that these will rise 21% by 2030 and that the age brackets of 40-44 and 45-49 will represent a significant portion affected by this.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/hematologyoncology/othercancers/106210