Mark Lawler called the problem a ticking timebomb that needs to be defused as quickly as possible, otherwise the numbers will undoubtedly continue to grow.
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- Mark Lawler called the problem a ticking timebomb that needs to be defused as quickly as possible, otherwise the numbers will undoubtedly continue to grow.
Commenting on the findings, Mark Lawler, professor of digital health and the chair in translational cancer genomics at Queen’s University Belfast, called the problem “a ticking timebomb that we need to [defuse] as quickly as possible, otherwise the numbers will undoubtedly continue to grow”.
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Origin: extracted from Cancer rates rising more quickly among younger people, international research finds · 2026-10-10 19:59