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Received — 6 October 2026 ⏭

Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international research finds

✇The Guardian
By: Anna Bawden Health and social affairs correspondent
6 October 2026 at 00:01

Experts looking at UK, US and Dutch data found ‘significant increases’ in early onset cases of seven cancers, prompting warnings about lifestyle choices

Cases of seven types of cancer have risen sharply among younger people in England, major new research has found, prompting warnings that lifestyle choices are costing thousands of lives each year.

The number of people under 50 diagnosed with prostate cancer in England has quadrupled since 2001, while early onset bowel, kidney and uterine cancer diagnoses more than doubled.

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© Photograph: baranozdemir/Getty Images

© Photograph: baranozdemir/Getty Images

Received — 15 September 2026 ⏭

Harold Freeman, Who Helped Remove Barriers to Cancer Treatment, Dies at 93

✇NYT: Science
By: Richard Sandomir
15 September 2026 at 11:08
He developed a program that became a model for hospitals around the world, making it easier for poor Black patients to navigate an onerous bureaucratic system.

© Frances Roberts for The New York Times

Harold Freeman in 2000. Early in his career as a surgeon, he said, he thought he could “cut cancer out of Harlem,” but he soon learned that “the disease would not yield to a surgeon’s knife.”
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