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Colon cancer is killing more younger men and women than ever, new report finds (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 9 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world
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Experts are stumped as to why colorectal cancer is rising dramatically among people in their 30s and 40s.

Colorectal cancer is the deadliest cancer for men under age 50 — and the second deadliest cancer among women in the same age group, behind breast cancer.

The incidence of colon cancer has been rising for at least the last two decades, when it was the fourth-leading cause of cancer death for both men and women under 50.

Among men and women of all ages, lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death. Prostate cancer is second for men, and breast cancer is second for women. Colorectal cancer is third, overall, for both sexes.

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[–] Beanedwizard@lemmy.world 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I bet my left nipple that it’s from microplastics.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's either microplastics or the fact that the younger generations have been eating poison their whole lives whereas the older ones got at least their childhood filled with healthy nutritional foods

[–] epyon22@programming.dev 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably nitrates for specifically colon cancer.

Nitrates are a huge concern and linked to colon cancer at this point. In basically any preserved lunch meat even if "nitrate free" where celery salt is added and usually creates more nitrates than the nitrate added stuff. https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/cancer-carcinogenicity-of-the-consumption-of-red-meat-and-processed-meat

[–] chaosppe@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

This needs way more publicity because the evidence is pretty overwhelming.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lol. You've obviously never looked into the banned pesticides of the past. I mean at least modern apples aren't sprayed with Lead hydrogen arsenate.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah but there's a difference between eating something you didn't know was dangerous to cramming foods with known toxic preservatives