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Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

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Re: Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

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Post by elric »

parl_match wrote: post #4
proee wrote: post #2

Wow, I had no idea there is a 15X increase for endurance athletes. Make me want to dial down the running a bit, which make you wonder where the sweet spot is for distance training.

It may be the damage of repetitive motion, it may be chemicals released into the bloodstream from endurance athletics. It may be something else. Without knowing the root cause, it's impossible to figure out the "sweet spot"

Could be a lot of things. Lots of long distance runners consume a lot of sugary gels to keep going. Not sure what the typical composition is, but likely lots of glucose and no fibre.

The marathon runners I know also seem to eat tons of junk food, they can get away with it from a weight perspective because a long run will burn it off, but it could have other consequences.

Point being: there's a lot about long distance runners that's quite different from other people.

Re: Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

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Post by rybosworld »

caminante wrote: post #13
dexwiz wrote: post #5

Something I've never seen in these analyses is drinking. Millennials are heavy drinkers. Both craft brews and cocktails were defining generational traits. Not everyone is a drinker but it appears they are heavy drinkers compared to other generations. The theory behind the ultra marathoners is that extreme distance running disrupts the epithelial layer and microbiome in the gut. Wouldn't drinking have similar effects?

> Millennials are heavy drinkers. That's news to millenials and the graveyard of craft breweries. I thought alcohol consumption is trending off for younger generations.

Not to be rude but, google is free:

https://www.google.com/search?q=are+millenials+heavy+drinker...

Re: Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

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Post by pcorsaro »

nubinetwork wrote: post #7

Strange, because I've heard the exact opposite... https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/colorectal-cancer-keeps-risin...

You didn't actually click and read anything. Hank's page is saying exactly what the article you linked is saying. CRC is on the rise in young people. I'm not sure why the moderators changed the title of this post. It should be "Something is Going on with Colorectal Cancer."

Re: Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

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Post by kazinator »

If you screen more people for the disease, and do it better, such that you reduce the incidences and fatalities in the 50+ cohort, that improvement logically implies that you must be catching incidences in the under 50 cohort. So it's going to skew the numbers. Incidences that would have been tallied in the 50+ cohort, are now counted in the under 50.

E.g. a 45-year-old with a latent colorectal cancer who would previously not have been diagnosed early, but only late when they developed symtpoms, by which time they hit 50, would have counted as an incidence or a likely fatality, among the 50+ data. But if that same individual had been caught at 45, they would have counted as an incidence against int he under-50 cohort.

Earlier, better and more available screening alone will shift the data this way.

Re: Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging

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Post by bahmboo »

Excellent content. The delivery mechanism of the site cited is very polarizing! At the very least it’s generated a lot of opinions. If I think of the target audience used to TikTok engagements it makes a lot of sense. It’s swipey influenced and interactive. It breaks the back button oh well we have browser tabs right?

The web is best for me when experimental UX like this is tried out.

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Post by plopz »

anigbrowl wrote: post #3

I stopped after the 4th click, I found it irritating to have to click to get 1 or 2 sentences at a time. This would have been just fine as a short article, making it interactive annoyed me more than the revealed content informed.

Very annoying UX, I found it felt like it was breaking continuity and making the ideas on each page disjointed.

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parl_match wrote: post #4
proee wrote: post #2

Wow, I had no idea there is a 15X increase for endurance athletes. Make me want to dial down the running a bit, which make you wonder where the sweet spot is for distance training.

It may be the damage of repetitive motion, it may be chemicals released into the bloodstream from endurance athletics. It may be something else. Without knowing the root cause, it's impossible to figure out the "sweet spot"

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