{"podcast":{"title":"Deborah Lebree's podcast","slug":"deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","podcast_index_feed_id":7041113,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6015089/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast--6015089","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/nuvolari-assets/yellow_square_mic.jpg","author":"Deborah Lebree","episode_count":1000,"summary":null,"last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T16:21:39.869546+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113"},"episode":{"title":"Why Adults Are Getting Cancer at a Younger Age","slug":"why-adults-are-getting-cancer-at-a-younger-age","published_at":"2026-08-10T09:45:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/why-adults-are-getting-cancer-at-a-younger-age","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-adults-are-getting-cancer-at-a-younger-age--73752059","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/73752059/default.mp3","summary":"For years, cancer has been seen as a disease people mostly get when they’re older. That seems to be changing as more young people are getting cancer than ever before. Today, Nina Agrawal, a health reporter for The New York Times, explains what scientists are learning about the factors driving the rise and what it means for a generation of young cancer survivors. Guest: Nina Agrawal , a health reporter for The New York Times. Background reading: Hundreds of New York Times readers shared their experiences with early-onset cancers. Here are seven of their stories . Research is starting to offer clues about why more than a dozen types of cancer have increased among people under 50 in the past decade . Photo: Leah Nash for The New York Times For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.","meta_description":"For years, cancer has been seen as a disease people mostly get when they’re older. That seems to be changing as more young people are getting cancer than…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1782,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/episodes/why-adults-are-getting-cancer-at-a-younger-age/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/deborah-lebree-s-podcast-7041113/why-adults-are-getting-cancer-at-a-younger-age.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}