Good morning, today is Tuesday, March 5th.

My name is Eduardo Vicente and these are Puerto Rico's top news for today.

We start off with a study that shows that between 2011 and 2015, cancer rates for young adults

in Puerto Rico were abnormally high.

This was especially true for women who represented 68% of all reported cases.

The study was performed by the Center for Penseo and Cancer and there is still no answer

to why specifically this is happening.

Professionals have a couple of hypotheses which range from obesity to other types of lifestyle choices

in young Puerto Ricans and even environmental factors.

But what must be said is that obesity and lifestyle choices in Puerto Rico are also common

in the states. So that kind of cancels out if the data in the states does not show the same rise

in cancer rates for young adults.

And so it's something that actually does have to be studied further to find a better answer.

We move on and the House just approved a new civil code. As I said yesterday,

they were discussing a new civil code. Some of the biggest changes that were approved were that

marriage is now defined as being between two people instead of a man and a woman. 10 out of the 12 recognized causes for divorce were taken out.

It's so divorces were simplified. commercializing surrogate mothers and they

prohibited assisted suicides and gene editing specifically. So gene editing and assisted

suicide are specifically prohibited in the new civil code. This civil code is yet to be approved by the Senate.

It's actually yet to be discussed as well by the Senate. And by the governor, so by no means is

this a final copy. These things might change, but the House just approved it. Yesterday we talked

that they were looking to lower the age at which a young person is considered

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