Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
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Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
#2I can't find a source with the full paper at all. And I'm guessing that's why there is no comment here.
Re: Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
#3>> Increased use of screening programmes has contributed to this phenomenon to a certain extent, although a genuine increase in the incidence of early-onset forms of several cancer types also seems to have emerged.
How do they separate these two. Early testing is becoming more common so you expect to see more cancer simply due to looking for it.
Doc: Early screening has increased the 5-year survival rate for various cancers.
Patient: Of course it has, but will I live any longer?
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#4Free radicals in the water table. Pollution in general. Plastic in the rainwater. Doesn't just affect nature. Backs up up the water table, from ocean to river from the slums to the hills.
Good that we're doing it less and less, in some respects. Pollution is poison.
Although there is always some. Even very primitive societies eg in the Amazon Basin pollute a bit and after like ten years they move to a new place, and the go in circles in the long run, sustainable.
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#5>> Increased use of screening programmes has contributed to this phenomenon to a certain extent, although a genuine increase in the incidence of early-onset forms of several cancer types also seems to have emerged. How do they separate these two. Early testing is becoming more common so you expect to see more cancer simply due to looking for it. Doc: Early screening has increased the 5-year survival rate for various…
You should be able to see the 'real' increase from death rates, assuming the cause of death is correctly identified as cancer pre or post mortem.
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#6Gee wonder what could have caused that.
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#7Gee wonder what could have caused that.
They're looking at the past several decades...
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#8I say this as often as I can.
We have a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer with ~83% efficacy.
Following the "bread-crumbs" seems like a good strategy to me.
We have this little beasty in wild. Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1, but no vaccine. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/human-t-lym...
We have correlation with cancer with other viruses. Hep C for example.
How many more clues do we need to expand research in this direction?
Could the implications for the existing cancer "industry" preclude finding prophylactic methods? Asking for a friend.
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#9The most disturbing part, to me, is this:
> The early-onset cancer epidemic might be one manifestation of increasing trends in the development of many chronic diseases in young and future generations.
Why are chronic diseases trending upwards? Is it the obvious things (pollution, microplastics, obesity, massive drain on mental health from the modern lifestyle, etc.), or is there something else going on?
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