Healthy dose of skepticism is probably in order! This seems to one of the latest fads in media coverage of cancer!
Something is wrong! The articles, I have seen do not include any link to the research study itself. Google search and Google Scholar search do not produce a link either to this study. Dubious! Peer reviewed? Published research?
"As researchers struggle to understand why more young people are being diagnosed with cancer, they’re exploring a possible contributor: accelerated biological aging.
Cancer is an “aging disease”—but age is more than accumulated years, ... a new study that examined the records of 148,724 people ages 37-54 in the U.K. "
"... colleagues hypothesized that increased biological age, indicative of accelerated aging, may contribute to the development of early-onset cancers, often defined as cancers diagnosed in adults younger than 55 years. ...
To examine the association between biological age and cancer risk in younger individuals, Tian and colleagues examined data of 148,724 individuals housed in the U.K. Biobank database. They calculated each participant’s biological age using nine biomarkers found in blood: albumin, alkaline phosphatase, creatinine, C-reactive protein, glucose, mean corpuscular volume, red cell distribution width, white blood cell count, and lymphocyte proportion. Individuals whose biological age was higher than their chronological age were defined as having accelerated aging. ..."
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