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Yeah, my personal theory is that plastics and PFAS are going to be the "things we did wrong for too long" for millenials / Gen Z.
Just like leaded paint before... and perhaps all (fossil fuel) pollution too. I think the ultimate lesson will be "we're one with the environment, not, in fact, a separate entity from it".
Rising rates of cancer in young people prompts hunt for environmental culprit
I can't comment on causes as I'm not a doctor, in my case all the known causes did not apply to me.
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I used to be on the freedom side. Now in some areas it's becoming clear to me that we as a population do not have any self control and both sugar addiction and drug addiction is out of control and causing mass suffering
Just wanted to add: we should also hold vendors of these things accountable.
How much of this is explained by the increase in obesity in young adults? I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the first specific cancer TFA mentions is colorectal. In the last sixty years the obesity rate has tripled with morbid obesity growing nearly ten fold.
By explained do you mean cause and effect? What is the link between the two? More cells = more that can become cancerous?
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/o...
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Yeah, my personal theory is that plastics and PFAS are going to be the "things we did wrong for too long" for millenials / Gen Z.
Just like leaded paint before... and perhaps all (fossil fuel) pollution too. I think the ultimate lesson will be "we're one with the environment, not, in fact, a separate entity from it".
Nature could, before, take time to heal and "absorb" everything we threw it's way. Time was the ultimate healer.
We no longer have that option and we simply must stop the third world from progressing. If you all thought it was bad with the small 1st world population damaging the env, you can't even fathom the scale and sheer trash the third world billions will generate in the coming decades whilst they "come out of poverty and industrialization".
36 y/o male with stage 4 colon cancer. Diagnosed in 2016. Lifelong triathlete / healthy eater. I think it's easy to write this off and just better screening, but I think that's certainly a necessary, but not sufficient explanation. I'm open to other ideas, but I have to imagine some of this is due to changes in our environment and food supply. plastics everywhere, pesticides in our food, pollution in the air.
I would wager this is more a function of better/earlier detection than anything. In general deaths from cancer are down considerably. I'm having trouble finding exact stats I want, but believe this is the case for young people as well. Cases of cancer that result in fatality have been and will always be counted pretty close to 100%, since they will eventually seek medical help. Cases of cancer that are less serious a…
There is no modern improvement in screening process that would account for the increase in colon cancer we have been seeing in young adults. Colon cancer screening still does not begin until age 50
This shows that the colon cancer screening rate has quadrupled for ages 45-49 since 2020. It says official guidelines were changed in 2021.
I am not going to pretend to be an expert, but I also imagine there could be significant difference in how sensitive these screenings have been over the decades.