'These are people in the prime of life': The worrying puzzle behind the rise in early-onset cancer
'These are people in the prime of life': The worrying puzzle behind the rise in early-onset cancer
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'These are people in the prime of life': The worrying puzzle behind the rise in early-onset cancer
There are rising cases of breast, colorectal and other cancers in people in their 20s, 30s and 40s. What is going on?
Plastic
...ultra processed foods, pollution, lack of preventative care (or lack of any meaningful healthcare). Yada yada yada
No. Ultra-processed foods predate these increased cancer rates by decades, it started after World War Two. Pollution was far worse in the past, coal was nasty. Meaningful healthcare implies modern healthcare, it detects cancers it doesn't prevent them.
It's almost certainly plastics and other chemicals that we are exposed to on a routine basis. Prior to the 90's most things were still glass, metal and wood. Now even our clothes are plastic and everything is stored in some chemical blended storage.
Lack of exercise too, we’re pretty sedentary these days.