Obesity and alcohol ‘driving up bowel cancer cases among young people in UK’
Obesity and alcohol are driving up bowel cancer cases among young people in the UK, researchers have warned.
Unhealthy lifestyles are contributing to cancer at an earlier age, they said, as they called for people to undergo screening sooner.
The new study also found concerns over bowel cancer death rates in women of all ages, which do not appear to be following the downward trend of many other cancers.
The research, published in journal Annals of Oncology, looked at cancer death rates and those it the UK, comparing what death rates in 2024
