Since the early 1990s, cancer rates in 25 to 49-year-olds in the UK have increased by 24%.
According to new analysis by Cancer Research UK, shared exclusively with ITV’s Tonight programme, almost 35,000 under 50s are now diagnosed with cancer every year in the UK.
Almost 6,000 younger adults die each year, and bowel cancer is one of the fastest-rising cancers in the under 50s.
So scientists at King’s College London are searching for answers.
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