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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] 68 points 1 week ago (4 children)

We’ve poisoned our planet for the last 100+ years and now we are dying off slowly from the fruits of our labor.

The irony.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Better back that colonoscopy screening up earlier then. I think it’s recommended at age 45 in the US, but I’m guessing insurance won’t want to cover screenings at 5-year intervals for an extra 20 years because money, dear boy.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

TL;DR, the article says obesity rates and sugar account for a lot but not all of the increase so there is probably something else as well. Some suggestions from the article: artificial light, sleep-patterns, changes in biological clock as a result. Microplastics, especially for colorectal cancer. Ultra processed foods. Increased usage of antibiotics.

Obesity and sugar are presented as known cancer causes while the others are proposed or suggested by experts in the article but nothing to back it up yet, further research needed.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet it ends up being caused by something far more innocuous than any of the first guesses that come to mind.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The nightmare scenario is it being caused by something even more insidious and omnipresent than microplastics. The second nightmare scenario is microplastics.

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Plastic Sugar Teflon Roundup Lead Pesticides Fertilizers

Just a few of the hazardous substances we regularly come into contact with on a semi-daily basis. The cause of the problem is capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (14 children)

It's not just capitalism. I'm from east Germany and you wouldn't believe how much crap was buried, fumed into the air or pumped into the water in the name of peace and socialism.

Don't forget, Chernobyl happened because of a cost saving measure.

BTW, you forgot alcohol, tobacco, vapes, stress and enforced sedentary lifestyle in your cancer list.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm still convinced that the aluminum in deodorants are not safe either...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Same. When that news first hit I switched to non-aluminum brands just to be safe.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well yeah, we're all shitting out microplastics all the time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

We probably aren't shitting them out fast enough.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hope its not from deburring the chinese plastic dildos

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Stay safe and use heavy lead dildos or the self glowing Marie Curie radium dildos instead.

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