Thanks to modern medicine, survival rates in people diagnosed with cancer have never been higher – and those in their 60s, 70s and 80s are less likely than their parents’ generation to develop the disease at all.

But recently, scientists at the American Cancer Society uncovered a worrying trend. Those born in the three-decade window between 1965 and 1996 are now at greater risk from the full range of 17 different cancers than those born after the Second World War.

The Telegraph London