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.

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.