Andrea Brady lost her 27-year-old daughter Jessica Brady to cancer in 2020.
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.
Early-onset cancers are still comparatively uncommon and the vast majority of cancers affect older people.
The rising rates could, in part, be down to better detection and reporting, but that doesn’t account for the scale of the increase and experts are concerned.
You can watch ’Cancer Under 50: Searching for Answers – Tonight’ on ITV1 and ITVX, Thursday 3 April at 8.30pm.
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