The race to explain why more young adults are getting cancer

For years, researchers around the world have tracked a troubling trend. Cancer, for so long seen as a feared disease of old age, is increasingly striking adults younger than 50. No one knows exactly why. But as I wrote in this week's cover story, scientists are racing to figure out what's driving this situation—and how to stop it.

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