{"id":85365,"date":"2026-01-07T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/scientists-investigate-why-more-young-people-are-getting-bowel-cancer-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:44:11","slug":"scientists-investigate-why-more-young-people-are-getting-bowel-cancer-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/scientists-investigate-why-more-young-people-are-getting-bowel-cancer-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists investigate why more young people are getting bowel cancer | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bowel cancer samples that have been stored for up to a century will be analysed to try to solve the <!--more--> mysterious rise of the disease in young people.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the majority of bowel cancers still being found in older adults, the rise in younger patients has been seen around the world.<\/p>\n<p>This includes in the UK where bowel cancer rates have increased by 75% in the under-24s since the early 1990s &#8211; but scientists are unclear why.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at St Mark&#8217;s The National Bowel Hospital are now going through advanced scientific analysis to understand what caused each cancer and what&#8217;s changed over the decades.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BowelCancer #UK#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowel cancer samples that have been stored for up to a century will be analysed to try to solve the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}