India, June 24 -- A new study led by researchers at WashU Medicine suggests that younger generations may be aging faster biologically than older generations did at the same age, which might also be linked to a higher risk of developing cancer at a younger age.
"Our ultimate goal is to decode how modern environments become biologically embedded to drive cancer risk, transforming prevention from broad recommendations to personalized interventions," said study author Yin Cao, a molecular epidemiologist and an associate professor of surgery and of medicine at WashU Medicine. "This brings us closer to identifying risk earlier and developing prevention strategies that are tailored to an individual's biology."
To investigate, researchers analyze...