Accelerated Biological Aging Could Explain Why Younger Adults are Getting Cancer
Scientists have been struggling to understand why more people who are less than 55 years of age are being diagnosed with cancer. These cases are described as early-onset cancer because cancers typically tend to develop in people above 55, but this is changing and researchers want to know why. It was “understandable” when people were diagnosed with cancer at 55 years or beyond because as the body gets older, it accumulates damage at the cellular level to the extent that tumor development begins. Now that younger people are developing cancer, the scientific community is racing to find out why, even…
