Is Cancer Everywhere?

“This year’s WHO global status report on cancer found ‘persistent and widening’ inequities in access to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care” (The Guardian, July 8, 2026), and the World Health Organization warns that cancer “will touch 92% of people, either through their own diagnosis or that of a close family member.” More than twenty million people are diagnosed with cancer every year, and estimates suggest that number will reach about 35 million by 2050.

While “the average age for men and women with cancer is around 69,” cancer is now attacking more young people than it once did (Deutsche Welle, August 3, 2026). For example, “the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) has reported a sharp increase in gastrointestinal cancer cases for patients between the ages of 20 and 39.” Bone marrow and uterine cancers are also occurring more frequently in young people. And “in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom (UK) and the US, people born in the 1990s face at least fourfold higher risk of early-onset colorectal cancer compared with those in the 1960s.”

Researchers believe this may be because young people are aging at a faster rate than they used to. Suggested reasons for this include being exposed to obesity earlier in life and for a longer period of time, greater physical inactivity, and poor sleep quality due to extended periods of time in front of a screen. It appears that a growing number of factors in our modern societies contribute to cancer.

Long ago, God told the ancient Israelites that if they would obey Him and His laws He would “put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you” (Exodus 15:26). Although the Ten Commandments may appear vague and broad to some, the statutes that flesh out these commandments are very specific and include many healthful principles. In fact, the Bible is full of laws, statutes, directives, and examples that God provides in order to protect and enhance physical health—information that our “enlightened” societies have discarded as antiquated. To learn more about the powerful health principles in the Bible, read or listen to Biblical Principles of Health.