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The alarming rise of cancer among Australian Millennials

Jill Margo

The rate of bowel cancer in Millennials, those now aged 27 to 42, is up 153 per cent in the past 30 years, an alarming trend experts blame largely on poor diet, physical inactivity and obesity.

Graham Giles: “The efforts required to improve this would be similar in scope to those required to alter the course of the Titanic.” 

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Jill Margo was a senior writer at The Australian Financial Review.

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