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Alarming 500% Surge: Colorectal Cancer Rates Skyrocket Among U.S. Youths (scitechdaily.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

This sounds like too big a jump to be explained by bacon. Microplastics maybe? :(

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Risk factors include a family history of inflammatory bowel disease or colorectal cancer. Modifiable risk factors include obesity, tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and dietary habits such as low fiber intake, consumption of processed meats or sugar-sweetened beverages, and a high-fat diet.

Sounds like the shitty western diet, lack of exercise, and the resulting obesity are the primary causes at least in the US.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yep, obesity has skyrocketed... it's not bacon. Around 40% of the usa is obese. It's the number one cause of death now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Shitty western diet isn’t new though. Think of all the crap people ate and drank and smoked in the 1950s. They got cancer, but not early colorectal cancer in these numbers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Well i haven't read the article but on principle you can make many things sound more or less dramatic than they might actually be with percentages. If there were 3 people with colon cancer per year (random figure) and now there are 18 that is 500% more, but may as well be a statistic outlier.

That being said I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out to be either or both. Microplastics are everywhere, we can only hope they dont fuck with our biological processes in irreversible ways (like causing infertility).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That could be the case with extremely rare diseases, but sadly that’s not the case here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Probably faulty to look for a singular causal factor. It’s probably a mixture of various environmental and dietary changes that have occurred over the last 10-20 years or so

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Bet it's dip