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Over the past 10 years, rates of colorectal cancer among 25 to 49 year olds have increased in 24 different countries, including the UK, US, France, Australia, Canada, Norway and Argentina.

The investigation's early findings, presented by an international team at the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) congress in Geneva in September 2024, were as eye-catching as they are concerning.

The researchers, from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the World Health Organization's (WHO's) International Agency for Research on Cancer, surveyed data from 50 countries to understand the trend. In 14 of these countries, the rising trend was only seen in younger adults, with older adult rates remaining stable.

Based on epidemiological investigations, it seems that this trend first began in the 1990s. One study found that the global incidence of early-onset cancer had increased by 79% between 1990 and 2019, with the number of cancer-related deaths in younger people rising by 29%. Another report in The Lancet Public Health described how cancer incidence rates in the US have steadily risen between the generations across 17 different cancers, particularly in Generation Xers and Millennials.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Maybe sweeteners

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's so many factors. Pesticides, nitrates are prevalent in most meat products, lack of dietary fibre can increase risks of colon cancer and high cholesterol.

Not to mention micro plastics (though they've been around for longer than we've known I bet) and forever chemicals like PFAs (though not sure if they're cancerous??).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Nope, still a puzzle says the business owner. We just have no idea what could be doing this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Don't forget light pollution.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The diffrence is "living in an ecological system" and "living in an economic system".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

It’s Covid

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Funny how so many responses have skimmed over the implication of antibiotic use.

Now ask yourselves, these antibiotics... If you'd have asked your doctor at the time "are these drugs safe and effective?", what do you think the answer would have been?

Now ask your doctor if the latest vaccine is safe and effective and tell me how confident you feel about their response.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are you implying vaccines cause cancer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

No, not at all.

I'm pointing out that concern about vaccine safety is legitimate given that many treatments thought "safe and effective" at the time later turn out to have been harmful. The effect antibiotics have on the gut biome being just the latest example.

People concerned about the safety of the drugs they are told to use are not all "lunitic conspiracy theorists" as often branded. Some simply have a completely reasonable caution about the hubris of the medical establishment.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Why do you bring this up here then

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Seemed as good a place as any.

I assume the report wasn't posted in the spirit of "oh well, nothing we can do about it". I assume the message was, "let's try not to let this happen again".

But maybe im assuming too much basic human compassion.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Funny how the article lists SO MANY other potential causes and the one you pick out is one that fits into your own information bubble.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its the one that coincides with a concern of mine, yes.

Do you comment on absolutely everything regardless of whether it interests you or not?

Are you suggesting that the mere fact of being more interested in some issues than others indicates some kind of unreasonable level of fantisicm?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Could it be the single use micro plastics….

Older people have cancer and a lot of doctors just call it aging. That’s how common it is. It’s normalized. Now that the younger are catching up they are suddenly concerned that this is a problem.

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