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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.

The researchers, from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the World Health Organization's (WHO's) International Agency for Research on Cancer, surveyed data from 50 countries to understand the trend. In 14 of these countries, the rising trend was only seen in younger adults, with older adult rates remaining stable.

Based on epidemiological investigations, it seems that this trend first began in the 1990s. One study found that the global incidence of early-onset cancer had increased by 79% between 1990 and 2019, with the number of cancer-related deaths in younger people rising by 29%. Another report in The Lancet Public Health described how cancer incidence rates in the US have steadily risen between the generations across 17 different cancers, particularly in Generation Xers and Millennials.

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[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 130 points 2 months ago

Plastic Sugar Teflon Roundup Lead Pesticides Fertilizers

Just a few of the hazardous substances we regularly come into contact with on a semi-daily basis. The cause of the problem is capitalism.

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 77 points 2 months ago

It's not just capitalism. I'm from east Germany and you wouldn't believe how much crap was buried, fumed into the air or pumped into the water in the name of peace and socialism.

Don't forget, Chernobyl happened because of a cost saving measure.

BTW, you forgot alcohol, tobacco, vapes, stress and enforced sedentary lifestyle in your cancer list.

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

in the name of peace and socialism.

That was the false justification because the actual reason was capitalism.

Don’t forget, Chernobyl happened because of a cost saving measure.

Cutting costs to make a profit is capitalism - especially when the "externality" is a catastrophe for other people.

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 14 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, the famous capitalist powerhouse Soviet Union.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Well it certainly wasn't communist.

[-] jumjummy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

And it certainly wasn’t capitalist, so what’s your point?

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's the same thing that always happens in any economic system where the wealthy, powerful, and corrupt are allowed to remain in charge.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Cutting costs to make a profit is capitalism

And socialism and communism are also dealing with limited resources and thus cutting cost is also something that will come up. It's not like communism unlocks unlimited resources.

[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

We're on Lemmy, every evil in the world is the result of capitalism.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] EatATaco@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

True. But if you scream "capitalism!" Every time something goes wrong, it calls into question how much critical thought actually went into that.

[-] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

True, too.

I think though the declining health does have a massive connection with capitalism as it enforces a lot of negative impact regarding that.

Personally I'd not be surprised if the whole adhs "pandemic" is connected to the microplastic invasion of the brain, which of course mostly exists due to big oil, greenwashing of plastics and money.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Younger generations drink less and use less tobacco than basically any other generation, so that's probably not it.

I don't know what you mean by "enforced sedentary lifestyle," but young people tend to do activities that don't involve exercise in their free time: computer use, phone use, video games, etc.

I think the fact that obesity is up something like 20% since the 90s is probably related. Young people exercise less and eat like shit, which seems pretty related to rectal/colon cancers.

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

I don't know what you mean by "enforced sedentary lifestyle,"

Skill issue, I'd argue. May I introduce you to the concept of "working in an office"?

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Yes, people only started working in offices 20 years ago. 🙄

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago

Lead and Teflon have gone down since the 90s. I'd say it's mostly plastic. Up and into most all of the 80's everyone drank tap water and sodas/other drinks were all canned or glass bottles.

Then around 1990 everyone started putting their drink in plastic. Then 15 years later for some dumbass reason, people started to buy and drink all their water out of plastic as well.

[-] Saleh@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

Problem with PFAS and many other stuff is that it is accumulating in the biosphere. So while the new emissions go down, you still end up being exposed to more and more of them over time. They still get into the water and then into the plants and animals that you eat later.

[-] fartnuggetsupreme@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The largest contributor to the micro-plastics in your body is tire dust, though, it's not new. More of it since the 90s, yeah, maybe there's a threshold?

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago

Doesn't really seem like there's more plastic dust? But since this study looked at colon cancer, maybe inhalation plastic has less of a role?

[-] itsnotits@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
  • since the '90s*
  • all of the '80s*
[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Old people come into contact with all that stuff too, not just young people.

edit:

Cancer deaths are consistently declining in the US. American Cancer Society's 2023 report

Despite the pandemic, and in contrast with other leading causes of death, the cancer death rate continued to decline from 2019 to 2020 (by 1.5%), contributing to a 33% overall reduction since 1991 and an estimated 3.8 million deaths averted.

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Agreed, the above doesn’t mesh with this variable

[-] watson387@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

My point is that a lot of these things have flooded the market since the early 80s, which would make the tail end of Generation X the first generation that's been in constant contact with these things their entire lives.

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Scotch Guard (PFAS) was released in the 50s and everyone went gangbusters spraying it on everything.

Plastic based and molded products started to be seen around 1910 and surged in the 50s after WW2.

Processed foods were a thing since the 1800s with sugars as HFCS added into everything since the 60s.

Not to discredit what you’re saying, but, and this is solely based within the context of this particular headline discussion, it would cause you to look elsewhere. I’m thinking it’s more stress based. I’m working my butt off to evolve my small business just to survive. While we are having success and growth, it takes no less than 16 hours a day Sunday through Saturday to make it happen. I remember watching some family members and other inspiring business leaders as a kid in the 80s working regular 8 hour days and owning two homes.

Further to that, psychological medicine is so far behind and mental health has a major, if not direct, effect on physical wellness.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

According to the American Cancer Society's 2024 stats cancer deaths are declining in some areas (ie: lung cancer) but increasing in many others.

In 2024, 2,001,140 new cancer cases and 611,720 cancer deaths are projected to occur in the United States.

  • Cancer mortality continued to decline through 2021, averting over 4 million deaths since 1991 because of reductions in smoking, earlier detection for some cancers, and improved treatment options in both the adjuvant and metastatic settings.

However, these gains are threatened by increasing incidence for 6 of the top 10 cancers.

  • Incidence rates increased during 2015–2019 by 0.6%–1% annually for breast, pancreas, and uterine corpus cancers and by 2%–3% annually for prostate, liver (female), kidney, and human papillomavirus-associated oral cancers and for melanoma.

Incidence rates also increased by 1%–2% annually for cervical (ages 30–44 years) and colorectal cancers (ages <55 years) in young adults. Colorectal cancer was the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in both men and women younger than 50 years in the late-1990s but is now first in men and second in women.

  • Progress is also hampered by wide persistent cancer disparities; compared to White people, mortality rates are two-fold higher for prostate, stomach and uterine corpus cancers in Black people and for liver, stomach, and kidney cancers in Native American people. Source
[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

you’re conflating mortality metrics with incidence metrics. increasing incidents are very likely biased by improved detection and reporting.

anyway the point is not that cancer is going away or anything, but that you can’t easily say “pollution is giving young people cancer” as the top comment is.

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Both mortality and incidence rates are included in what I quoted.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago
[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

So your point was that I conflated metrics but that had nothing to do with the OPs original post?

[-] Melobol@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I'm still convinced that the aluminum in deodorants are not safe either...

[-] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Aluminum is in antiperspirants, not deodorants (usually).

[-] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Same. When that news first hit I switched to non-aluminum brands just to be safe.

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

~~capjtalism~~

Greed, in any form. In any economic model. Greed.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Yes, but capitalism is an economic model that aids and abets greed. Where greed is rewarded almost exclusively.

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

Which economic model do you prefer?

The distinction between capitalism and socialism isn't always a bright line.

And communism has yet to succeed.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

An economic model that doesn't prioritize profit over everything else... which is what capitalism does.

Let me know if you form an opinion beyond "all the dictators told me that this is what communism is, so I have no choice but to believe them".

[-] APassenger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Can you point to communism succeeding. Anywhere?

Because it's just another greed mechanism where those in charge, being corruotible humans, accumulate power and wealth. So far.

Cuba might have had a good run except our embargo didn't help them.

[-] Nutteman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Capitalism is greed as an economic model

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