{"id":611980,"date":"2026-05-30T12:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611980\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:07:09","slug":"lack-of-sleep-fuelling-cancer-surge-in-under-50s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/611980\/","title":{"rendered":"Lack of sleep \u2018fuelling cancer surge in under 50s\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Coughlan, the clinical lead at Bowel Cancer UK, said there was \u201ca growing body of evidence globally that <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health-fitness\/conditions\/cancer\/colon-cancer-young-people-symptoms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bowel cancer is increasing in younger people<\/a>, including within the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly why this is yet, but researchers currently believe it may be due to genetics, and lifestyle factors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis study\u2019s conclusion that insomnia may be a potential risk factor in early-onset colorectal cancer could go some way to helping us understand the reasons behind this increase.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Around one in three adults in the UK \u201316 million people \u2013 are thought to suffer from insomnia in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Dr David Garley, a GP and director of The Better Sleep Clinic, said there was strong evidence that insomnia drives health conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and poor mental health.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWhen sleep deprived, it\u2019s difficult to live a healthy life \u2013 there is more drinking, more obesity, less exercise, more smoking etc \u2013 and these may be what causes any possible increased risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claire Coughlan, the clinical lead at Bowel Cancer UK, said there was \u201ca growing body of evidence globally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16011,2199,847,59,102,50,236,370,5438,208138,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-611980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-bowel-cancer","tag-breast-cancer","tag-cancer","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-news","tag-obesity","tag-sleep","tag-standard","tag-sunday-telegraph-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}