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The hunt is on to learn why bowel cancer in young people is rising - New Scientist (No paywall) The number of people under 50 diagnosed with bowel cancer has been going up for three decades. In the UK, for instance, there has been about a 50 per cent rise in these tumours in people aged 25 to 49 over this period, with similar trends in the US, Canada, Australia and several European countries.
Another important cohort will be the Danish Newborn Screening Biobank, which contains a dried spot of blood from virtually all babies born in Denmark since 1982, with nearly 2 million samples. This will let researchers see if anything we are exposed to in the uterus is linked with higher bowel cancer risk.
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