Chronic inflammation is almost certainly part of this and lots of things about our modern ways of living cause higher levels of inflammation.

- Obesity and sugary drinks/food

- Various chemicals we use in agriculture, food products, cleaning, etc

- Lack of sleep

- Lack of exercise

- Stress

- Pharmaceuticals. And to be clear because I know this will be more controversial, I'm not anti-pharma, but lots of people today are being prescribed daily medication at ever young ages. We know many of these pharmaceuticals can marginally increase certain cancer risks.

- Low Vit D levels – seriously everyone should be supplementing

- Vaccines? Probably not, but I dunno... Call me a conspiracy theorist if you want, but if you're on your 5th Covid shot I feel like you might be putting your body at some marginally increased inflammatory risk there. Vaccines are quite literally deigned to induce inflammation to boost immune response after all.

- More radiation emitting devices – not sure about this one because I haven't done any research, but when I was younger people used to talk about this quite seriously and now it feels like something only conspiracy theorists say. I suspect there is some amount of truth to it even if 5G isn't going to literally give you cancer.

I think it would be more surprising if we didn't see an increase in cancer rates to be honest.