The new American Association for Cancer Research report predicts more than 2 million new cancer cases diagnosed in 2024, and emphasizes the dangerous role played by alcohol use in cancer development.

Adults under 50 have been developing breast and colorectal cancers at higher rates in recent decades. Alcohol may be a factor, a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research suggests.

A new report from the American Association for Cancer Research emphasizes a cancer risk that its authors say is being overlooked: alcohol. Overall, cancer death rates in the US have declined by 33 percent between 1991 and 2021 — equal to about 4.