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'These are people in the prime of life': The worrying puzzle behind the rise in early-onset cancer (www.bbc.com)

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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.

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Breast cancer is one form of cancer where the trend is apparent. A new report from the ACS found that while deaths from breast cancer in women have dropped by around 10% in the past decade, incidence rates are rising by 1% per year overall – and 1.4% per year for women under the age of 50.

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Cancer specialists say that patients presenting with diseases like pancreatic cancer, an illness where most people are diagnosed in their early 70s, are sometimes decades younger than would usually be expected.

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[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I just watched a fun video today about a class action lawsuit happening against the company that sells Zantac, the most widely used acid reflux medicine in the world.

Turns out, Ranitadine, an active ingredient that can cause NDMA's (a cancerous toxin to humans) is used in Zantac. Supposedly, it was only under the range approved by the FDA, at about 18 nanograms.

Well, kept at a temperature of just 77F over 12 days, that number doubles to 25 nanograms, and at 158F up to 142ng.

Your safe medicine is left out in the sun or in your car, it can produce extremely high levels of NDMA's making it no longer safe and now a very high cancer risk if taken.

So alongside everything mentioned, there's also lovely stuff like this happening to us. And I'm sure companies that make Zantac were greatly benefitted by the pollution restrictions that were removed throughout 2016, further harming all of us in the process.

So, that's great.

Edit: so

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It used to be mostly smoking; now it's mostly eating animal products and processed food, and poor sleeping. The advice given for decades is still valid: only whole-plant food and water, lots of exercise, and proper sleep.

Possible reasons listed in article:

obesity,
metabolic syndrome (abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high serum triglycerides, and low serum high-density lipoprotein),
added sugar,
processed food,
ultra-processed foods,
consistently high blood glucose,
insulin resistance,
change in sleep patterns (children sleeping less, shift work and artificial light),
microplastics,
antibiotics.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

PFAS, microplastics, airborne plasticizers, and more. You are guaranteed to win the chemical lottery. Not that I'm anti-chemical, that's silly, but I'm talking specifically about dangerous chemical pollution of the environment.

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 hours ago

Air quality is garbage

Plastics in our blood

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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