Why Your Pace of Aging Predicts Cancer Better Than Your Birthday Rising rate of early-onset cancer is connected to accelerated biological aging TL;DR: Why This Matters The 60-second version: A 2026 Nature Medicine study found that younger generations are biologically aging faster than their birth year predicts — and that gap tracks with real increases in early-onset cancer risk. The tool that captures this, DunedinPACE, doesn't just estimate how old your body looks; it measur