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Why focus on 1990s exposures?
Scientists are focusing on exposures from the 1990s because today's under 50s would have been children or young adults then. This allows researchers to investigate environmental, dietary, and lifestyle changes from that specific period that might be contributing to the current rise in cancer cases.
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