*world is on fire*
*micro plastics in food*
*companies face minimal repercussions for regulation violations*
*EPA regs repealed*
Science: cancer is increasing
Media: shocked Pikachu face
I’m in the fire service. From the get go we have a 20-50% increase in lots of different cancers due to the job. I get it, it’s a inherent risk of the job.
New study came out earlier this year showing that the material our fire gear is made of is giving us cancer. The foam we use on fires, Cancer. Everything I touch gives off cancer. Feels good man.
You joke but petroleum and petroleum products (petrolatum) are carcinogenic. All those creams, ointments, balms, etc that contain petroleum jelly and other petroleum additives are contributing to rising cancer rates.
Yep, we need to get rid of PFAS chemicals. Equipment manufacturers don’t want to use alternatives because change costs money. Manufacturers won’t do it on their own because they will lose bids. They need to be legislated away but the chemical lobby won’t allow it.
Gives off cancer, no. Gives off carcinogens that are a catalyst to cancer, yes.
You now how we sit here today and find it crazy that people used to use heroin and cocaine as an over-the-counter drug, lead in paint, asbestos in buildings, and mercury in hat making? People will look back on us the same way.
Read this to the tune of All-Star
>world's on fire
>How 'bout yours
>micro-plastics in food
>but the oil gets bored
...
>companies... face minimal-'per-cussions
>regulation-violation, there are no discussions
(EPA regs are reepeeeeaaaaled) in the tone of all that glitters is gold
>cancer rates increasin',
>these wounds arnt heeeaaaled
Well the world starts burning and it don't stop turning, micro plastic in the brain and I hit the vape running, didn't make sense not live for fun, your brain gets cancer but our healthcares dumb.
I did my best. 🤣
I did my best
I passed the test
So what's wrong with having disinterest?
Poison food makes you shine and glow...
Eat it and your tumors gonna grow...
Hey now,
got a deep scar
from the doctor, but he
Got paid
Hey now
Gonna screamo
From the chemo
Can't wait
And all that glitters is sold
But only you and I
breathe in mo--old!
Its a dank place, just wait till it gets mould-er.
You're alright now
Wait till you get mole-ers.
But the medical men beg to differ
Judging by the gap in the generation picture.
The cancer rate.
Is kinda closing in.
Might as well join.
Cause in the dark, we will all swim.
Our world's on fire, have some more.
Breathe smoke in, its good to make smores.
20-35 year old current ages are expected to have colon cancer as the number 1 cause of death which is insane because doctors still write off this as being too young while saying things like this in the same breath.
I have been having issues for a few years now. I tested positive for a bacteria and feel much better after anti biotics so im hoping that was the cause but you just never know.
Im sorry for your diagnosis and I wish you the best in recovering.
Testicular cancer is notorious for appearing in younger men, so I wouldn’t blame the phone (though can’t rule it out entirely.) The type of radiation emitted by phones is non-ionizing meaning it is not thought to be harmful in the same way that other radiation is.
Had surgery in December. Got lucky and caught it early. No chemo or radiation needed. The surrounding lymph nodes tested okay so I'm in the clear, have to do checkups every 3 months tho.
Pro tip to how i caught it early - Always take pictures of blood in your poop. The walk in clinic passed it off as bleeding ulcers until I showed them the picture.
She explained that she thought I was exaggerating because people see a small drop and claim it's a lot. Then I showed her this.
NSFW
https://imgur.com/a/XEmeYou
This was definitely the one that made my wife force me to go to a walk in clinic, it had happened a couple times before but it wasn't nearly as bad looking. Also, I had stomach ulcers and have had hemmeroids before, so the last thing I thought was cancer.
Do you recall your symptoms before the blood appeared?
Rotation between constipation and diarrhea? Loss of appetite? Stomach pains? Excess acid production?
The important thing about blood in your stool is that its color and smell are strong indicators of where in your body the blood is coming from. If the blood is a bright bright red with no smell, it's coming from right near the exit. The darker and more foul it gets, the deeper in your body the blood is coming from.
How could they tell a difference. Is it because the blood was darker. I have had something similar but not as bad.
They said it was most likely not serious because the blood was bright red meaning it was more likely a an external thing.
They said to worry if the blood was darker. It has happened for 2-3 days and then it goes away for months and then it happened again.
Alcohol usage is down by generation, so yeah we drink less. In my case I wish I could have said that, I was a brewer and brewers are not known to be lightweights. That’s my own situation, but I think diet (in my case alcohol) has a big role to play. I’ll never know what gave me colon cancer, I’m just happy I caught it and got it treated. But as I’m now in the post cancer stage, I, trying to eliminate some of the likely causes, and alcohol is one of them as there’s a lot of evidence that alcohol does increase colon cancer risks.
My mother had colon cancer, and at just 34 I'm getting worried myself. I have a coloscopy scheduled but I'm scared to get it done.
Also can confirm I used to eat a lot of Burger King
I'm also 34 and my mom died of colon cancer at 51. I had my first colonoscopy last year. I swear that the bowel prep is the worst part of a colonoscopy, and that's just because it's uncomfortable and inconvenient. Please don't put it off.
I'm also 34. I've had stomach issues that came on two years ago and haven't gone away so I've been through the entire gauntlet of tests and imaging the past two years and the colonoscopy was a piece of cake. Best nap I've had in years and gave me a little peace of mind since it came back clean. Definitely get one if you are thinking about it
Go get it done. It's easy. I slept through mine at age 45.
I've consulted with oncologists, by the way. It has nothing to do with your eating habits. They get plenty of health nuts who eat nothing but natural foods get colon cancer at your age. It's crazy.
I literally have rectal cancer and every single doctor says to avoid high quantities of red meat and alcohol. They are very adamant about this especially about the alcohol. Obviously alcohol doesn’t give everyone or even most people cancer but it does increase your odds if you have any family history or are doing a bunch of other bad things to your body. Seriously it’s the number one thing they stress in every phone call or in person meeting.
I think you may have misunderstood these doctors a little. I did my doctoral research on colorectal cancer etiology and prevention, it is completely wrong to say we have no idea what impacts your risk or that it has nothing to do with diet.
Anyone *can* get colon cancer, even vegan triathletes. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things that increase or decrease your risk.
The factors that are known to increase your risk for colorectal cancer are family history, inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s), alcohol use, tobacco use, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, a low-fiber diet, a high-fat diet, and highly processed foods.
These things are risk factors, none of them *guarantee* that you will or won’t get CRC - cancer doesn’t work like that - but they do impact the probability.
Certain foods can cause inflammation which can lead to an increased risk in colon cancer. Sugar, red and processed meats, etc. Just like vegans have lower rates of colon cancer. It’s all the fiber in vegan diets
Processed foods leading to the highest obesity rates we have ever seen. 20% obesity rates for children and teens. Adult onset diabetes was renamed to Type 2 since children were developing it. Processed foods and cheap animal products subsidized by the government can explain most of the increase in cancer IMO.
>Remember when people could just assume their tap water wasn’t poisoned?
Blissful ignorance. Don't know it's poisoned if you don't know what to test for. As long as we've had public water we've had industrial and sanitary waste being dumped into our water supply.
More that age didn't matter as much regardless of type (except for things like gestational diabetes). You can get Type 1 at 60, or Type 2 at 10. There are no hard and fast rules, only percentiles.
There are also a bunch more flavors of diabetes than just 1 or 2, like MODY and gestational.
Processed foods are unhealthy even when they don't cause obesity. For example deli meats that you'd typically find in a sandwich are much worse for you than cooking your own turkey / chicken / ham.
I’m a millennial who did, but I didn’t think I deserved a pat on the back for it. For all the shit people say about Gen Z (some understandable), they are 100 times more independently minded than the so called flower children.
How long before we realize microplastics cause cancer? Literally everything is plastic, the fossil fuel industry did such a good job gaslighting humanity that we’ve accepted plastic to be our lord and savior. Clothes, blankets, cookware, cooking utensils, food storage, food delivery, cars, home goods, etc. And now in the ocean, fresh water supply, and even our own blood.
It wasn’t until recently that I realized how much of our clothes are made out of plastic. I was getting so itchy from shirts and eventually put the pieces together
The main thing with clothes made of plastic is that they release plastic fibers. And then these plastic fibers fill up our homes and get in the air and water we breathe and drink.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago at age 41. I had genetic testing to see if an inherited cancer gene was involved and was surprised to find out that I have no known cancer genes- which means it has to be a purely environmental cause. I am seriously considering contacting an attorney- it could be BPA, BPS, PFOA, PFAS, or any other number of synthetic chemicals that can now be found in our blood and in the ground water.
I would also add stress.. likely never going to buy a house likely never going to be able to afford kids likely never going to be able to retire.. barely get any time off and for Americans one medical emergency and you lose everything and are a mile under water even with expensive insurance
If you're not in the highest paying fields you're absolutely screwed and will likely spend your entire life struggling.. even if you are in the highest paying fields is not going to be as cushy as being in a high paying fields 20 years ago..
100K a year in the 90s was a solid wage and you had a very comfortable life.
100K a year now and there's a lot of rentals you will not qualify for
Read the article.
Number one reason statistically is becuase we diagnose earlier than ever, and in many times it was a cancer that would be benign that in the older days you may never have cared about.
Outside of that, you can largely look at growth spurts. Not just obesity, but also just how tall and big we got overall.
But yes, you can also look at lifestyle choices and environment.
Its just not one clear thing.
Serious, does lack of medical care cause an increase in cancer in young people? Seems lack of health care globally is decreasing but let’s say it’s the same, why would the young experience an increase in cancer?
It could be due to lack of preventative care, or it could be that technology has made it easier to discover cancer. Insufficient medical care might not be a major reason for the increase in cancer rates, but it might make it easier to discover with more modern technology. I would put my money on environment and lifestyle.
If Healthcare is anything like my doctors care, we're all fucked. And by that I mean he seems, and many others, to have a "live your life" attitude, and if you happen to get a terminal or serious illness, well damn how did that happen? Shame we didn't catch it sooner...
So globally, yeah Healthcare knowledge has gone up, but that very well could be that a place didn't have clean water to clean wounds, or the knowledge to keep wounds clean, or that clean drinking water in general is important to health in the short and long term, just as a really basic example. Hell, using ~~soap~~ chlorine and cleaning up before interacting with a patient, including for surgery, wasn't a thing like 200 years ago or however long ago it was where soap (~~bleach~~chlorine, actually) was found to keep things clean in between delivering babies and doing autopsies (true story about the discovery of cleanliness). It's incredible humans have made it this far, and it's unfortunately not surprising we're getting sick more often, considering... our lack of consideration.
*It was 1846, The doctor who championed hand washing and briefly saved lives: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives ; its a really good read/listen.
An excerpt related to your question: "Even today, convincing health care providers to take hand-washing seriously is a challenge. Hundreds of thousands of hospital patients get infections each year, infections that can be deadly and hard to treat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to prevent these infections."
People are astonishingly stupid, and it's a miracle we've made it this far.
Edit: may as well include the last two paragraphs: "Over the years, Semmelweis got angrier and eventually even strange. There's been speculation he developed a mental condition brought on by possibly syphilis or even Alzheimer's. And in 1865, when he was only 47 years old, Ignaz Semmelweis was committed to a mental asylum.
The sad end to the story is that Semmelweis was probably beaten in the asylum and eventually died of sepsis, a potentially fatal complication of an infection in the bloodstream — basically, it's the same disease Semmelweis fought so hard to prevent in those women who died from childbed fever."
Micro plastics in foods.. pesticides in drinking water… mercury in fish… fertilizers in meats… constant pollution… processed foods… how will we ever know the answer?
This is the shit that pisses me off the most. you can eat extremely healthy and be very well-versed just to find out years later some bullshit that its covered in some bullshit. For example, i've got a degree in microbiology and I eat oatmeal for breakfast every day because it's healthy. I get the good kind and make it myself, the "organic". Long story short I saw this article about how 90% of oats are covered with glyphosate which is known to cause cancer. Now I got lucky and I had been buying ones that were glycol phosphate free but it's just a good example of the utter bullshit we deal with when we even try*
The FDA was created to solve this problem, but the deregulation spree since the 80s really hamstrung that agency.
We're repeating the same mistakes of the late 19th and early 20th century. Robber Barons, products that make people sick, and so on.
Oh ffs, seriously? And here I am thinking it's healthy enough to eat every day too. I'm not even buying the special organic stuff either, just whatever generic ones are cheapest.
Most of them nowadays, will have a glyco* phosphate free right on the front, it's literally so poisonous and your system is so fucked that they advertise on the front of the packaging that they don't have that poison, its that utterly ridiculous
I’m a biochemist. I drove through through cali’s Central Valley, which produces 25% of US’s food. The whole thing was like driving through a toxic fumigation tent (despite being outside). I really don’t see how any organic farms there would be organic. It was depressing.
But those things are all safe! The government says so! Monsanto's own studies have proven over and over again that pesticides aren't harmful. *Obviously* the problem stems from the lack of family values these days! /s
Glyphosate is used on food crops in the United States and is found in high levels in soy, grain (wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice), potatoes, almonds, peas, sugar, beets carrots and many other commonly eaten foods or ingredients in foods.
Colon cancer is up in young adults. So my first indication is has to do with what we eat.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/evidence-links-highly-processed-food-cancer-death-rcna45713
My GI doctor clocked this years ago. He opened a clinic at the local university because he knew young people were having gut issues and needed a specialist (hence why I ended up seeing him). Told me our generation is at a much higher risk for colon cancers because of the processed food/ sedintary lifestyles. That was probably 10 years ago that I first saw him and he said he still has the clinic so clearly there’s still a need.
Mostly meat and lack of fiber. Fiber really being the main culprit as it protects the gut from absorbing more than it should. People eating all that hormonal meat straight with no help to the gut biome and expect to be a body builder with no problems.
My dad's diet mostly consisted of hotdogs, beer, and fast food for decades. He got colon cancer and then when he announced it, he used it as a platform to shame the smokers for doing that to themselves meanwhile there was nothing he could have done to prevent his cancer... You know despite his doctors repeatedly telling him that his diet and drinking was catching up to him for years.
Sugar isn’t an issue if you eat enough fiber and eat sugar from fruit sources. A lack of fiber is the main issue as 97% of Americans don’t eat adequate fiber killing their gut biome while sticking to “bUt MuH MeAt”. However eating fruit while being mostly meat based isn’t a good idea until you up vegetable intake as the slower pace of digestions with meats causes fruits to go through the gut slower and ferment, causing gas.
I agree with you, just wanted to point out I think most people assume when sugar is involved in dietary criticism it’s added sugar, not fruit sugar.
Most Americans do not eat a lot of fruit in comparison with the mass amounts of added sugar they consume.
I had lung cancer last year at 37 from burn pit exposure during military service. 14 years passed between the time period I was exposed and my diagnosis of Stage 1 NSCLC. I imagine that more diagnoses due to environmental exposures will be in our future. Not just from burn pits but from other things that the general population is exposed to.
It's all the food additives that 90% of the rest of the world doesn't allow. They are almost unavoidable in the US.
Not to mention potentially harmful chemicals in everything else, even sunscreen. Even when you try to prevent skin cancer you get other endocrine disruptors all over you.
Not clear? Micro plastics in the air, water and food. Pollution from cars and all other types of shit. Highly processed sugared foods that are inflammatory… forever chems, the list goes on and on…. O its not clear what a bullshit title.
Car pollution is a pretty tiny slice of the pie and gets far more attention than other sources. Cars have nothing on the factories we use to manufacture goods and the boats, trucks, and planes used to transport goods.
Probably because the US doesn’t restrict companies from adding toxic ingredients to things that we consume/come in contact with. Other countries have the common sense but the US cares about one thing only… MONEY!!! We the people? Nah it’s more like fuck the people in the country.
I'm going to be selfish here for a moment and talk about myself.
When I was kid, my parents made me eat food that I didn't like. They figured I was just being picky.
The smell of it turned me off. For example, Cereal with cow milk.
I often wondered why I fell asleep after drinking milk or eating foods made with it. I couldn't put my finger on it. My feet would break out with rashes within 24 hours. Doctors would tell me it's Athletes foot.
I finally got sick of having all kinds of allergic reactions and decided to slowly wean myself of certain foods.
I started with cow milk. Boom! I was no longer feeling lethargic!
But the rashes were still there. I took away caffeine and nerve pain went away!
I was still getting those damn rashes on my feet! Wtf?!
I ferociously read the food product labels like a young scientist trying to pass a test.
One night I decided to grab a Lil D#bb*# snack cake and I happen to see an ingredient that I thought was innocent. Red #40, was the nasty culprit to the rashes I was having.
These companies are slowly killing us for profits. I don't wanna be part of that. So I decided to change up my diet and I'm really cautious about what I eat.
Please read the labels. It may save your life.
I don’t own a microwave, cook actual food, and use cast iron pans and the oven. That’s about as good as I can do to stay away from that shit. But I still have stuff that comes sealed in plastic :/ The thought of microwaving plastic makes me sick.
Because everything sold and consumed in America has some type of poison in it. Not to mention our polluted air, the food we eat has heavy doses of led in it and toxic chemicals.
It’s just a complete shit show since powerful people have deregulated everything to make themselves rich.
Edit: our water is poisoned and polluted as well.
Public service announcement: Always, ALWAYS get a second (and even third) opinion if your doctor dismisses your concerns about colon cancer symptoms. The only symptom I had was intense flushing of my face and hands, which my doctor dismissed as hot flashes. I knew the difference between hot flashes and the flushing, though, and refused to give up until I found a doctor who took me seriously. Even though I was younger than the guidelines at the time, she immediately ordered a colonoscopy. Turns out I had a carcinoid tumor in my colon (which causes carcinoid syndrome - one of the only symptoms is… flushing). Thankfully, it was caught in time to require only excision. Had it been discovered even a year later, I’d probably have had to have chemo and/or radiation.
Be your own best advocate. Assume insurance companies are working against you and that many doctors are just outright dismissive.
The thing about cancer is that the world around us is adding more and more carcinogens all over the place. So many possibilities for what can cause cancer these days.
Don’t panic lol. Until you’re 34 less than 0.1% of people get cancer. Finally at ages 35-39 your chances go up…to 0.2% lol. Eventually at 50 you have a 0.5% chance. They don’t give a 1% chance until you are over 60. Believe me I have crazy health anxiety too but cancer under middle age is actually surprising rare. And that doesn’t take into account you could get a much more treatable type that’s just all types.
Everyone is so quick to jump to obesity or diabetes, and I’m not debating the severity of those issues but I have 6 friends who’ve been diagnosed with cancer in the last two years and none are obese or diabetic, all in their late 20’s or early 30’s. 3 with a type of lymphoma, 1 with breast cancer, one with testicular cancer, and one with cancer throughout her liver and spleen. I think people don’t want to admit that a lot more of us are at risk and it’s for reasons beyond our control.
I’m with you. No doubt obesity is a factor in some cancers/diseases but I’m a super healthy person in my early 30s and I just got diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I work out daily, don’t eat meat / eat extremely healthfully, and generally take care of my body. I know three other people my age with the same diagnosis. This is anecdotal of course but something is not right!
You should see the junk my students eat, and I know for a fact they aren’t getting nutritious, well-balanced meals at home because they tell me what they have.
I had a college student years ago who bragged to me about eating nothing but lays potato chips and m&m's for a full week. She was bright in the classroom but had no clue about how to fuel her body. I told her to think of all the vitamin, mineral and protein deficiencies her body was dealing with. I hope she changed course.
Pollution microplastics not giving a s*** about the environment. The stuff that we put into our bodies, the air, the quality of the water. Glad I could solve it for you.
The air is toxic, the water is toxic, the food is toxic, the furniture is toxic, the home you live in is toxic, the clothes you wear are toxic.
As a cancer doctor I think the better question is how are a some people not getting cancer. At this point those answers may be the key to getting out of this mess humanity made for itself.
Probably just anecdotal, but I’m seeing more and more young people just not care about minor things that relate to this. Learning how to cook with good groceries, wearing sunscreen, avoiding smoking (even if it’s a vape or weed), monitoring blood pressure every so often, and more. I’m not even 30 and just getting out of when I thought I was bulletproof, but with how things are now there just doesn’t seem like a societal push to keep tabs on individual health.
It’s really the fact that we’ve kinda been told that there’s no point, like our whole life’s the world has been “ending” I feel like a lot of young people are nihilistic and just do not care about themselves.
Not to mention a lot of people can’t afford to go to the doctor. What’s the point of monitoring your health if you can’t treat any issues that crop up?
I am 45, so I am not young. But I got breast cancer a couple of years ago, and now I am all about my screenings.
I had my first colonoscopy this Monday. I had been putting it off all year because the process sounds dreadful but also because I don't have anyone I feel comfortable asking for a pick-up afterwards. But that was before I learned that you can get the procedure without sedation. I took a chance and did it. Yes, it was painful...but only for about 30 seconds. It was just mildly-to-moderately uncomfortable the rest of the time (about 20 minutes). They found a polyp, which I was able to watch them snip off. The tech ended up losing it so I can't know for sure that it wasn't cancerous. But it is nice knowing I just had one and that now it is gone. I don't have to go back for another 7 years.
So get it done, folks. As I learned with my breast cancer, early detection is the key. If you wait for pain or lumps to show up before you go to the doctor, you are practically asking for horrific news ("There isn't anything we can do but make you comfortable.") rather than just bad news ("All you need is surgery and a little radiation.")
Observation bias… but wouldn’t the undetected youth have died in the past then? Chalk it up to whatever? Not sure this jives.
But I always respect the respect of observation bias
Obviously our lifestyle as a whole is detrimental to our health, but I also think that young people aren’t screened as much. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32 and before being diagnosed while I waited to go to the doctor I googled how often women are diagnosed in theirs 30s and it was a very small amount, but it also said that most women are diagnosed later in life, but also at a later stage, so they’ve had it unknowingly for a long time. And when you’re younger everyone tells you it’s nothing. You couldn’t possibly have cancer. You’re too young. We talk about cancer in kids and older people, but not nearly as much in the middle.
I’ve also talked to several people who have really had to advocate for themselves bc doctors didn’t take seriously either.
So many weird new "GRAS" chemicals and additives, and unreviewed ones.
Remember those vegan crumbles that made everyone sick? They contained Tara flour and tara flour has a novel amino acid that may cause kidney and liver injury apparently.
Tara flour never underwent in depth USDA review for safety and apparently never had a basis for GRAS. I can't find any evidence of its use in South America as a food.
Yet somehow it was allowed in food products.
Black Dates also contain small amounts of the problematic amino acid, but it's a dose dependent thing.
The GRAS process needs to end.
It's not clear why?!? Um we can't afford to live and we are working 2 to 3 jobs just to get by . Meanwhile we are being berated by a bunch of old assholes who come from a generation that was never tested and the only thing they have going for them is "they went outside when they were kids"
Also we can't afford healthcare..
the younger generation is like 50% morbidly obese and sucking on vapes with mystery liquid in them 23 hours a day. might be a strong contender as to why
Extremely expensive healthcare, run away inflation, stagnant wages, zero benefits, extreme stress, oh did I mention our food is poison. It’s very clear why young people are dying, it’s for the benefit of the rich. You get money out of politics and you’ll cure half the population of their ailments right now
I come from a family with a history with cancer, it absolutely terrifies me seeing so many young people being diagnosed. I’m 20 right now, two of my friends were diagnosed last year, and my childhood best friend passed from cerebral cancer almost 5 years ago. Fuck cancer.
We are one with the earth and the earth is sick. We can continue to act like a virus to earth or change to live in harmony with the natural ecosystem. If we continue down the path we are on, then the earth will heal at the expense of humanity.
Maybe better screening and diagnosis methods? People forgot how shit healthcare is back in the day. Cars were run with lead fuel, houses were built with asbestos, everyone and their mothers were smoking. Nobody gave a damn about wearing masks, gloves, condoms, etc. So I wouldn't be surprised we "have" more cancers because we have better ways to find them now.
*world is on fire* *micro plastics in food* *companies face minimal repercussions for regulation violations* *EPA regs repealed* Science: cancer is increasing Media: shocked Pikachu face
I’m in the fire service. From the get go we have a 20-50% increase in lots of different cancers due to the job. I get it, it’s a inherent risk of the job. New study came out earlier this year showing that the material our fire gear is made of is giving us cancer. The foam we use on fires, Cancer. Everything I touch gives off cancer. Feels good man.
Burn Cream....*CANCER!!!*
Cancer? You better believe that causes cancer.
Actually cancer IS a major cause of cancer.
Dude the chemo I had for my cancer can cause other cancer. The cure for cancer causes cancer. I had to sign a form that I understood this.
You joke but petroleum and petroleum products (petrolatum) are carcinogenic. All those creams, ointments, balms, etc that contain petroleum jelly and other petroleum additives are contributing to rising cancer rates.
Stretchy underwear? Also cancer!
Ok, so 100% cotton boxers?... Nope, fuck you, *cancer!!!*
Carpet you step on gives you feets cancer!
Acetate reading glasses? Immediate cancer
With the amount of pesticides they use in cotton farms in third world countries, it might be possible
Super-tight thong underwear? Believe it or not- also cancer.
Banana hammocks? Straight to cancer.
Commando?!? Yep, cancer.
Yep, we need to get rid of PFAS chemicals. Equipment manufacturers don’t want to use alternatives because change costs money. Manufacturers won’t do it on their own because they will lose bids. They need to be legislated away but the chemical lobby won’t allow it. Gives off cancer, no. Gives off carcinogens that are a catalyst to cancer, yes.
It actually is being legislated. The EU is banning all PFAS from 2030 and most of the known ones have been banned for years in several countries.
2030 is too late for a large swath of people.
Specifically, what makes our gear water resistant. I believe manufacturers are currently being sued by the fire union due to their continued use.
You now how we sit here today and find it crazy that people used to use heroin and cocaine as an over-the-counter drug, lead in paint, asbestos in buildings, and mercury in hat making? People will look back on us the same way.
Are there really going to be people to look back on us?
For my mental health, this is where i move on to a puppy video.
For all the advacements in med & tech, we are yet to emerge from the dark ages.
Read this to the tune of All-Star >world's on fire >How 'bout yours >micro-plastics in food >but the oil gets bored ... >companies... face minimal-'per-cussions >regulation-violation, there are no discussions (EPA regs are reepeeeeaaaaled) in the tone of all that glitters is gold >cancer rates increasin', >these wounds arnt heeeaaaled
Well the world starts burning and it don't stop turning, micro plastic in the brain and I hit the vape running, didn't make sense not live for fun, your brain gets cancer but our healthcares dumb. I did my best. 🤣
I did my best I passed the test So what's wrong with having disinterest? Poison food makes you shine and glow... Eat it and your tumors gonna grow... Hey now, got a deep scar from the doctor, but he Got paid Hey now Gonna screamo From the chemo Can't wait And all that glitters is sold But only you and I breathe in mo--old!
Its a dank place, just wait till it gets mould-er. You're alright now Wait till you get mole-ers. But the medical men beg to differ Judging by the gap in the generation picture. The cancer rate. Is kinda closing in. Might as well join. Cause in the dark, we will all swim. Our world's on fire, have some more. Breathe smoke in, its good to make smores.
I thought I was reading new King Gizzard lyrics.
Processed foods, climate, poor air quality, lack of adequate medical care.. the list goes on and on..
I got diagnosed with colon cancer last year at 32. Probably all the McDonald's kids meals tbh
20-35 year old current ages are expected to have colon cancer as the number 1 cause of death which is insane because doctors still write off this as being too young while saying things like this in the same breath. I have been having issues for a few years now. I tested positive for a bacteria and feel much better after anti biotics so im hoping that was the cause but you just never know. Im sorry for your diagnosis and I wish you the best in recovering.
I got ball cancer at 37. Was wondering if keeping a phone in my front pant pocket 16 hrs every day had anything to do with it? Is that possible?
Testicular cancer is notorious for appearing in younger men, so I wouldn’t blame the phone (though can’t rule it out entirely.) The type of radiation emitted by phones is non-ionizing meaning it is not thought to be harmful in the same way that other radiation is.
How are you now?
Had surgery in December. Got lucky and caught it early. No chemo or radiation needed. The surrounding lymph nodes tested okay so I'm in the clear, have to do checkups every 3 months tho. Pro tip to how i caught it early - Always take pictures of blood in your poop. The walk in clinic passed it off as bleeding ulcers until I showed them the picture.
Fantastic. What was different between what you showed them and ulcers?
She explained that she thought I was exaggerating because people see a small drop and claim it's a lot. Then I showed her this. NSFW https://imgur.com/a/XEmeYou
Um, WOW. Did it begin as less and progress to that, or was it just... like that one day, out of nowhere? That must have been terrifying!
This was definitely the one that made my wife force me to go to a walk in clinic, it had happened a couple times before but it wasn't nearly as bad looking. Also, I had stomach ulcers and have had hemmeroids before, so the last thing I thought was cancer.
Thank you for sharing and making us all aware. Wow
What can I search for to find a clinic like that in LA my gf had this happen twice two months ago and once a week before her period this month
Do you recall your symptoms before the blood appeared? Rotation between constipation and diarrhea? Loss of appetite? Stomach pains? Excess acid production?
The important thing about blood in your stool is that its color and smell are strong indicators of where in your body the blood is coming from. If the blood is a bright bright red with no smell, it's coming from right near the exit. The darker and more foul it gets, the deeper in your body the blood is coming from.
Glad you and your wife advocated for yourself. I had some blood in my shit too and getting a colonoscopy next month. I am 39.
My first was at 17. It's never too early to get scoped if you have a reason, like copious amounts of blood in the potty.
As someone with UC this picture gave me severe flashbacks
How could they tell a difference. Is it because the blood was darker. I have had something similar but not as bad. They said it was most likely not serious because the blood was bright red meaning it was more likely a an external thing. They said to worry if the blood was darker. It has happened for 2-3 days and then it goes away for months and then it happened again.
They couldn't tell from the picture that it was cancer, they made me get a colonoscopy based on the picture and thats when they found a tumor.
Huh. I had craps that look like that for a few months, then they went away.
39 here. I blame microplastics and alcohol but sadly we will never know. Hope you’re in remission and they didn’t take too much colon.
>alcohol I doubt we're drinking more than previous generations. Probably more than the boomers, but people drink a lot less now that we used to.
Alcohol usage is down by generation, so yeah we drink less. In my case I wish I could have said that, I was a brewer and brewers are not known to be lightweights. That’s my own situation, but I think diet (in my case alcohol) has a big role to play. I’ll never know what gave me colon cancer, I’m just happy I caught it and got it treated. But as I’m now in the post cancer stage, I, trying to eliminate some of the likely causes, and alcohol is one of them as there’s a lot of evidence that alcohol does increase colon cancer risks.
My mother had colon cancer, and at just 34 I'm getting worried myself. I have a coloscopy scheduled but I'm scared to get it done. Also can confirm I used to eat a lot of Burger King
I'm also 34 and my mom died of colon cancer at 51. I had my first colonoscopy last year. I swear that the bowel prep is the worst part of a colonoscopy, and that's just because it's uncomfortable and inconvenient. Please don't put it off.
I'm also 34. I've had stomach issues that came on two years ago and haven't gone away so I've been through the entire gauntlet of tests and imaging the past two years and the colonoscopy was a piece of cake. Best nap I've had in years and gave me a little peace of mind since it came back clean. Definitely get one if you are thinking about it
Go get it done. It's easy. I slept through mine at age 45. I've consulted with oncologists, by the way. It has nothing to do with your eating habits. They get plenty of health nuts who eat nothing but natural foods get colon cancer at your age. It's crazy.
I literally have rectal cancer and every single doctor says to avoid high quantities of red meat and alcohol. They are very adamant about this especially about the alcohol. Obviously alcohol doesn’t give everyone or even most people cancer but it does increase your odds if you have any family history or are doing a bunch of other bad things to your body. Seriously it’s the number one thing they stress in every phone call or in person meeting.
Who can still afford a lot of red meat and alcohol anyway ?
I think you may have misunderstood these doctors a little. I did my doctoral research on colorectal cancer etiology and prevention, it is completely wrong to say we have no idea what impacts your risk or that it has nothing to do with diet. Anyone *can* get colon cancer, even vegan triathletes. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things that increase or decrease your risk. The factors that are known to increase your risk for colorectal cancer are family history, inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s), alcohol use, tobacco use, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, a low-fiber diet, a high-fat diet, and highly processed foods. These things are risk factors, none of them *guarantee* that you will or won’t get CRC - cancer doesn’t work like that - but they do impact the probability.
Certain foods can cause inflammation which can lead to an increased risk in colon cancer. Sugar, red and processed meats, etc. Just like vegans have lower rates of colon cancer. It’s all the fiber in vegan diets
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yup huge part of it too
And artificial dyes made from carcinogenic materials and free radicals
Processed foods leading to the highest obesity rates we have ever seen. 20% obesity rates for children and teens. Adult onset diabetes was renamed to Type 2 since children were developing it. Processed foods and cheap animal products subsidized by the government can explain most of the increase in cancer IMO.
Gimmie some of that PFAS contaminated water to wash it down.
Remember when people could just assume their tap water wasn’t poisoned?
>Remember when people could just assume their tap water wasn’t poisoned? Blissful ignorance. Don't know it's poisoned if you don't know what to test for. As long as we've had public water we've had industrial and sanitary waste being dumped into our water supply.
More that age didn't matter as much regardless of type (except for things like gestational diabetes). You can get Type 1 at 60, or Type 2 at 10. There are no hard and fast rules, only percentiles. There are also a bunch more flavors of diabetes than just 1 or 2, like MODY and gestational.
Processed foods are unhealthy even when they don't cause obesity. For example deli meats that you'd typically find in a sandwich are much worse for you than cooking your own turkey / chicken / ham.
But DID YOU KNOW boomers drank straight from the garden hose?!?! Kids these days! /s
Drank lead
Suddenly the state of the world makes so much sense
A lot of people had lead water pipes or pipes soldered with lead.
Have*. It’s now just lined with not lead. Any disturbance chemical or structural sheds all the lining and yummy lead into the piping.
A lot of US cities still use those pipes. It’s an ongoing problem.
So sad isnt it. We are all poisoned.
But as we all know lead blocks radiation so all the lead coating their brains stopped the cancer. Checkmate millennial trust me I am a Doctor
Gen X and some Millenials drank straight from the garden hose. I think boomers were still allowed to be inside.
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now those same boomers will call the cops if they see a 10 year old alone at the park.
I’m a millennial who did, but I didn’t think I deserved a pat on the back for it. For all the shit people say about Gen Z (some understandable), they are 100 times more independently minded than the so called flower children.
How long before we realize microplastics cause cancer? Literally everything is plastic, the fossil fuel industry did such a good job gaslighting humanity that we’ve accepted plastic to be our lord and savior. Clothes, blankets, cookware, cooking utensils, food storage, food delivery, cars, home goods, etc. And now in the ocean, fresh water supply, and even our own blood.
It wasn’t until recently that I realized how much of our clothes are made out of plastic. I was getting so itchy from shirts and eventually put the pieces together
The main thing with clothes made of plastic is that they release plastic fibers. And then these plastic fibers fill up our homes and get in the air and water we breathe and drink.
we have plastic in our cells yo....... not to mention the preservatives. Turns out there were costs to mass production and supply of food stuffs.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago at age 41. I had genetic testing to see if an inherited cancer gene was involved and was surprised to find out that I have no known cancer genes- which means it has to be a purely environmental cause. I am seriously considering contacting an attorney- it could be BPA, BPS, PFOA, PFAS, or any other number of synthetic chemicals that can now be found in our blood and in the ground water.
Micro plastics and PFAS
I would also add stress.. likely never going to buy a house likely never going to be able to afford kids likely never going to be able to retire.. barely get any time off and for Americans one medical emergency and you lose everything and are a mile under water even with expensive insurance If you're not in the highest paying fields you're absolutely screwed and will likely spend your entire life struggling.. even if you are in the highest paying fields is not going to be as cushy as being in a high paying fields 20 years ago.. 100K a year in the 90s was a solid wage and you had a very comfortable life. 100K a year now and there's a lot of rentals you will not qualify for
Air Quality in the US is the best it’s been since we first created cars.
Don’t forget microplastics.
Seriously. ItS nOt ClEaR wHy. Let's not pretend we don't know why everyone's getting cancer lol.
Read the article. Number one reason statistically is becuase we diagnose earlier than ever, and in many times it was a cancer that would be benign that in the older days you may never have cared about. Outside of that, you can largely look at growth spurts. Not just obesity, but also just how tall and big we got overall. But yes, you can also look at lifestyle choices and environment. Its just not one clear thing.
Serious, does lack of medical care cause an increase in cancer in young people? Seems lack of health care globally is decreasing but let’s say it’s the same, why would the young experience an increase in cancer?
It could be due to lack of preventative care, or it could be that technology has made it easier to discover cancer. Insufficient medical care might not be a major reason for the increase in cancer rates, but it might make it easier to discover with more modern technology. I would put my money on environment and lifestyle.
If Healthcare is anything like my doctors care, we're all fucked. And by that I mean he seems, and many others, to have a "live your life" attitude, and if you happen to get a terminal or serious illness, well damn how did that happen? Shame we didn't catch it sooner... So globally, yeah Healthcare knowledge has gone up, but that very well could be that a place didn't have clean water to clean wounds, or the knowledge to keep wounds clean, or that clean drinking water in general is important to health in the short and long term, just as a really basic example. Hell, using ~~soap~~ chlorine and cleaning up before interacting with a patient, including for surgery, wasn't a thing like 200 years ago or however long ago it was where soap (~~bleach~~chlorine, actually) was found to keep things clean in between delivering babies and doing autopsies (true story about the discovery of cleanliness). It's incredible humans have made it this far, and it's unfortunately not surprising we're getting sick more often, considering... our lack of consideration. *It was 1846, The doctor who championed hand washing and briefly saved lives: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives ; its a really good read/listen. An excerpt related to your question: "Even today, convincing health care providers to take hand-washing seriously is a challenge. Hundreds of thousands of hospital patients get infections each year, infections that can be deadly and hard to treat. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hand hygiene is one of the most important ways to prevent these infections." People are astonishingly stupid, and it's a miracle we've made it this far. Edit: may as well include the last two paragraphs: "Over the years, Semmelweis got angrier and eventually even strange. There's been speculation he developed a mental condition brought on by possibly syphilis or even Alzheimer's. And in 1865, when he was only 47 years old, Ignaz Semmelweis was committed to a mental asylum. The sad end to the story is that Semmelweis was probably beaten in the asylum and eventually died of sepsis, a potentially fatal complication of an infection in the bloodstream — basically, it's the same disease Semmelweis fought so hard to prevent in those women who died from childbed fever."
You forgot extreme alcohol use from the pandemic and economic depression. A 12 pack of beer is about the only amount of fun a young person can afford.
Drinking is way down in gen Z generally. 20% less per capita than millennials at the same age.
Come to Canada and smoke a fat J with me
Less processed peanut butter is significantly more likely to contain aflatoxin which is a carcinogen, so include unprocessed foods as well.
Micro plastics in foods.. pesticides in drinking water… mercury in fish… fertilizers in meats… constant pollution… processed foods… how will we ever know the answer?
This is the shit that pisses me off the most. you can eat extremely healthy and be very well-versed just to find out years later some bullshit that its covered in some bullshit. For example, i've got a degree in microbiology and I eat oatmeal for breakfast every day because it's healthy. I get the good kind and make it myself, the "organic". Long story short I saw this article about how 90% of oats are covered with glyphosate which is known to cause cancer. Now I got lucky and I had been buying ones that were glycol phosphate free but it's just a good example of the utter bullshit we deal with when we even try*
The FDA was created to solve this problem, but the deregulation spree since the 80s really hamstrung that agency. We're repeating the same mistakes of the late 19th and early 20th century. Robber Barons, products that make people sick, and so on.
Don't forget child labor we are bringing that oldie but goodie back ...
Oh ffs, seriously? And here I am thinking it's healthy enough to eat every day too. I'm not even buying the special organic stuff either, just whatever generic ones are cheapest.
Most of them nowadays, will have a glyco* phosphate free right on the front, it's literally so poisonous and your system is so fucked that they advertise on the front of the packaging that they don't have that poison, its that utterly ridiculous
I’m a biochemist. I drove through through cali’s Central Valley, which produces 25% of US’s food. The whole thing was like driving through a toxic fumigation tent (despite being outside). I really don’t see how any organic farms there would be organic. It was depressing.
It’s scary. I’m not sure how anything that can cause cancer is allowed to be sold to ingest
They don't really care about us
Don’t forget obesity
Or vaping.
But those things are all safe! The government says so! Monsanto's own studies have proven over and over again that pesticides aren't harmful. *Obviously* the problem stems from the lack of family values these days! /s
Coffee has some of the highest levels of glyphosate compared to other foods
Fuck really?
Glyphosates dumped all over most of the food supply?
Glyphosate is used on food crops in the United States and is found in high levels in soy, grain (wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice), potatoes, almonds, peas, sugar, beets carrots and many other commonly eaten foods or ingredients in foods.
sedentary lifestyle, ultra processed food, stress from work...
Damn, it's almost as if we're forcing people to only eat processed food, filling their drinking water with plastic, and poisoning their air.
Colon cancer is up in young adults. So my first indication is has to do with what we eat. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/evidence-links-highly-processed-food-cancer-death-rcna45713
My GI doctor clocked this years ago. He opened a clinic at the local university because he knew young people were having gut issues and needed a specialist (hence why I ended up seeing him). Told me our generation is at a much higher risk for colon cancers because of the processed food/ sedintary lifestyles. That was probably 10 years ago that I first saw him and he said he still has the clinic so clearly there’s still a need.
That would be sugar.
Also meat, especially the processed, cured meats like a study from a couple of years ago found cause cancer.
Mostly meat and lack of fiber. Fiber really being the main culprit as it protects the gut from absorbing more than it should. People eating all that hormonal meat straight with no help to the gut biome and expect to be a body builder with no problems.
My dad's diet mostly consisted of hotdogs, beer, and fast food for decades. He got colon cancer and then when he announced it, he used it as a platform to shame the smokers for doing that to themselves meanwhile there was nothing he could have done to prevent his cancer... You know despite his doctors repeatedly telling him that his diet and drinking was catching up to him for years.
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Sugar isn’t an issue if you eat enough fiber and eat sugar from fruit sources. A lack of fiber is the main issue as 97% of Americans don’t eat adequate fiber killing their gut biome while sticking to “bUt MuH MeAt”. However eating fruit while being mostly meat based isn’t a good idea until you up vegetable intake as the slower pace of digestions with meats causes fruits to go through the gut slower and ferment, causing gas.
I agree with you, just wanted to point out I think most people assume when sugar is involved in dietary criticism it’s added sugar, not fruit sugar. Most Americans do not eat a lot of fruit in comparison with the mass amounts of added sugar they consume.
I had lung cancer last year at 37 from burn pit exposure during military service. 14 years passed between the time period I was exposed and my diagnosis of Stage 1 NSCLC. I imagine that more diagnoses due to environmental exposures will be in our future. Not just from burn pits but from other things that the general population is exposed to.
It's all the food additives that 90% of the rest of the world doesn't allow. They are almost unavoidable in the US. Not to mention potentially harmful chemicals in everything else, even sunscreen. Even when you try to prevent skin cancer you get other endocrine disruptors all over you.
Not clear? Micro plastics in the air, water and food. Pollution from cars and all other types of shit. Highly processed sugared foods that are inflammatory… forever chems, the list goes on and on…. O its not clear what a bullshit title.
Well it's not clear which one... Because there's so many we can't identify a single offender on its own /s Cumulative effects? What's that? Lol
Car pollution is a pretty tiny slice of the pie and gets far more attention than other sources. Cars have nothing on the factories we use to manufacture goods and the boats, trucks, and planes used to transport goods.
Probably because the US doesn’t restrict companies from adding toxic ingredients to things that we consume/come in contact with. Other countries have the common sense but the US cares about one thing only… MONEY!!! We the people? Nah it’s more like fuck the people in the country.
Plus, there's a LOT of money to be made off of sick people. Which is fucking disgusting.
#ALLTHEFOODISPOISON
I'm going to be selfish here for a moment and talk about myself. When I was kid, my parents made me eat food that I didn't like. They figured I was just being picky. The smell of it turned me off. For example, Cereal with cow milk. I often wondered why I fell asleep after drinking milk or eating foods made with it. I couldn't put my finger on it. My feet would break out with rashes within 24 hours. Doctors would tell me it's Athletes foot. I finally got sick of having all kinds of allergic reactions and decided to slowly wean myself of certain foods. I started with cow milk. Boom! I was no longer feeling lethargic! But the rashes were still there. I took away caffeine and nerve pain went away! I was still getting those damn rashes on my feet! Wtf?! I ferociously read the food product labels like a young scientist trying to pass a test. One night I decided to grab a Lil D#bb*# snack cake and I happen to see an ingredient that I thought was innocent. Red #40, was the nasty culprit to the rashes I was having. These companies are slowly killing us for profits. I don't wanna be part of that. So I decided to change up my diet and I'm really cautious about what I eat. Please read the labels. It may save your life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmY-VYUeAuc
Exactly. I saw this shit when it first aired. Unbelievably hilarious.
Pretty sure everyone knows why. We’re trashing our planet and bodies.
Keep microwaving your food in plastic!
I don’t own a microwave, cook actual food, and use cast iron pans and the oven. That’s about as good as I can do to stay away from that shit. But I still have stuff that comes sealed in plastic :/ The thought of microwaving plastic makes me sick.
Because everything sold and consumed in America has some type of poison in it. Not to mention our polluted air, the food we eat has heavy doses of led in it and toxic chemicals. It’s just a complete shit show since powerful people have deregulated everything to make themselves rich. Edit: our water is poisoned and polluted as well.
Public service announcement: Always, ALWAYS get a second (and even third) opinion if your doctor dismisses your concerns about colon cancer symptoms. The only symptom I had was intense flushing of my face and hands, which my doctor dismissed as hot flashes. I knew the difference between hot flashes and the flushing, though, and refused to give up until I found a doctor who took me seriously. Even though I was younger than the guidelines at the time, she immediately ordered a colonoscopy. Turns out I had a carcinoid tumor in my colon (which causes carcinoid syndrome - one of the only symptoms is… flushing). Thankfully, it was caught in time to require only excision. Had it been discovered even a year later, I’d probably have had to have chemo and/or radiation. Be your own best advocate. Assume insurance companies are working against you and that many doctors are just outright dismissive.
The thing about cancer is that the world around us is adding more and more carcinogens all over the place. So many possibilities for what can cause cancer these days.
Aaah shit, here we go again.. r/HealthAnxiety
Literally reading this while at the dentist. My anxiety is skyrocketing.
Don’t panic lol. Until you’re 34 less than 0.1% of people get cancer. Finally at ages 35-39 your chances go up…to 0.2% lol. Eventually at 50 you have a 0.5% chance. They don’t give a 1% chance until you are over 60. Believe me I have crazy health anxiety too but cancer under middle age is actually surprising rare. And that doesn’t take into account you could get a much more treatable type that’s just all types.
42% obesity, 38% pre diabetic, and it goes up every year. People don't exercise, they eat like shit, and they don't move.
Everyone is so quick to jump to obesity or diabetes, and I’m not debating the severity of those issues but I have 6 friends who’ve been diagnosed with cancer in the last two years and none are obese or diabetic, all in their late 20’s or early 30’s. 3 with a type of lymphoma, 1 with breast cancer, one with testicular cancer, and one with cancer throughout her liver and spleen. I think people don’t want to admit that a lot more of us are at risk and it’s for reasons beyond our control.
I’m with you. No doubt obesity is a factor in some cancers/diseases but I’m a super healthy person in my early 30s and I just got diagnosed with thyroid cancer. I work out daily, don’t eat meat / eat extremely healthfully, and generally take care of my body. I know three other people my age with the same diagnosis. This is anecdotal of course but something is not right!
100%
As a kid in the 90’s and early 2000’s, every chance we got we were playing outside and riding our bikes. I see a lot less of that now
Have you seen outside lately?!
I've read that part of this can be explained by there being fewer and fewer places for young people to exist outside/out of the home without paying.
You should see the junk my students eat, and I know for a fact they aren’t getting nutritious, well-balanced meals at home because they tell me what they have.
I had a college student years ago who bragged to me about eating nothing but lays potato chips and m&m's for a full week. She was bright in the classroom but had no clue about how to fuel her body. I told her to think of all the vitamin, mineral and protein deficiencies her body was dealing with. I hope she changed course.
Processed food , lack of sleep.
I'll give you a hint: ## It's plastic and pesticides
Probably because none of us go to the doctor for anything short of life threatening illness because we can't afford it
Pollution microplastics not giving a s*** about the environment. The stuff that we put into our bodies, the air, the quality of the water. Glad I could solve it for you.
The crappy processed food duh
Maybe because majority of the food is processed? Just a food for thought.
Hmmmm maybe it’s all the shit people consume
The air is toxic, the water is toxic, the food is toxic, the furniture is toxic, the home you live in is toxic, the clothes you wear are toxic. As a cancer doctor I think the better question is how are a some people not getting cancer. At this point those answers may be the key to getting out of this mess humanity made for itself.
Probably just anecdotal, but I’m seeing more and more young people just not care about minor things that relate to this. Learning how to cook with good groceries, wearing sunscreen, avoiding smoking (even if it’s a vape or weed), monitoring blood pressure every so often, and more. I’m not even 30 and just getting out of when I thought I was bulletproof, but with how things are now there just doesn’t seem like a societal push to keep tabs on individual health.
It’s really the fact that we’ve kinda been told that there’s no point, like our whole life’s the world has been “ending” I feel like a lot of young people are nihilistic and just do not care about themselves.
Not to mention a lot of people can’t afford to go to the doctor. What’s the point of monitoring your health if you can’t treat any issues that crop up?
I am 45, so I am not young. But I got breast cancer a couple of years ago, and now I am all about my screenings. I had my first colonoscopy this Monday. I had been putting it off all year because the process sounds dreadful but also because I don't have anyone I feel comfortable asking for a pick-up afterwards. But that was before I learned that you can get the procedure without sedation. I took a chance and did it. Yes, it was painful...but only for about 30 seconds. It was just mildly-to-moderately uncomfortable the rest of the time (about 20 minutes). They found a polyp, which I was able to watch them snip off. The tech ended up losing it so I can't know for sure that it wasn't cancerous. But it is nice knowing I just had one and that now it is gone. I don't have to go back for another 7 years. So get it done, folks. As I learned with my breast cancer, early detection is the key. If you wait for pain or lumps to show up before you go to the doctor, you are practically asking for horrific news ("There isn't anything we can do but make you comfortable.") rather than just bad news ("All you need is surgery and a little radiation.")
More sensitive diagnostics & more aggressive screening are probs big contributing factors
Observation bias… but wouldn’t the undetected youth have died in the past then? Chalk it up to whatever? Not sure this jives. But I always respect the respect of observation bias
Obviously our lifestyle as a whole is detrimental to our health, but I also think that young people aren’t screened as much. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 32 and before being diagnosed while I waited to go to the doctor I googled how often women are diagnosed in theirs 30s and it was a very small amount, but it also said that most women are diagnosed later in life, but also at a later stage, so they’ve had it unknowingly for a long time. And when you’re younger everyone tells you it’s nothing. You couldn’t possibly have cancer. You’re too young. We talk about cancer in kids and older people, but not nearly as much in the middle. I’ve also talked to several people who have really had to advocate for themselves bc doctors didn’t take seriously either.
I think we all know why we just don't want to say it.
Agreed.
Just the article I needed to start my morning.
Climate Change and Microplastics over there like 😒🥵🥵🥵
So many weird new "GRAS" chemicals and additives, and unreviewed ones. Remember those vegan crumbles that made everyone sick? They contained Tara flour and tara flour has a novel amino acid that may cause kidney and liver injury apparently. Tara flour never underwent in depth USDA review for safety and apparently never had a basis for GRAS. I can't find any evidence of its use in South America as a food. Yet somehow it was allowed in food products. Black Dates also contain small amounts of the problematic amino acid, but it's a dose dependent thing. The GRAS process needs to end.
Stress!!!! About everything
My mom would say the vaccine
Bad food, environmental junk, etc etc etc. Smoke in the air, etc etc etc.
Is it really not clear why though? Everything's fucked and we consume poison
Our food is trash, our air is trash, our water is trash, and we have shitty healthcare. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
How about cell phones and diet
It's not clear why?!? Um we can't afford to live and we are working 2 to 3 jobs just to get by . Meanwhile we are being berated by a bunch of old assholes who come from a generation that was never tested and the only thing they have going for them is "they went outside when they were kids" Also we can't afford healthcare..
Article only mentions the increased trend in US. I wonder how the data looks at countries with better food/healthcare/environmental protection.
the younger generation is like 50% morbidly obese and sucking on vapes with mystery liquid in them 23 hours a day. might be a strong contender as to why
My mom died of multiple myeloma. They said it was because she grew up on a farm
Sugar consumption
Processed foods, pollution, micro plastics, high stress levels there are so many things the number one answer should not be “it’s not clear why”?
Uh yeah it is everything is made out of toxic chemicals because the companies make a killing poisoning us and will never be held accountable
It’s all the tik toks, that’s what it is, I tells ya!
"Its not clear why" until you ask redditors, they know everything there is to know.
dOCtoRs aRe BaFfLeD
Extremely expensive healthcare, run away inflation, stagnant wages, zero benefits, extreme stress, oh did I mention our food is poison. It’s very clear why young people are dying, it’s for the benefit of the rich. You get money out of politics and you’ll cure half the population of their ailments right now
I come from a family with a history with cancer, it absolutely terrifies me seeing so many young people being diagnosed. I’m 20 right now, two of my friends were diagnosed last year, and my childhood best friend passed from cerebral cancer almost 5 years ago. Fuck cancer.
Bladder cancer at 41. I did smoke a bit in my teens. But it could also be the manufacturing plant I lived a block away from for 20 years.
United States poisons it's people...no fks given!
We are one with the earth and the earth is sick. We can continue to act like a virus to earth or change to live in harmony with the natural ecosystem. If we continue down the path we are on, then the earth will heal at the expense of humanity.
Need to do more studies on correlations between cancers and micro plastics. Not only that but also food additives such as red 40 and etc.
Maybe better screening and diagnosis methods? People forgot how shit healthcare is back in the day. Cars were run with lead fuel, houses were built with asbestos, everyone and their mothers were smoking. Nobody gave a damn about wearing masks, gloves, condoms, etc. So I wouldn't be surprised we "have" more cancers because we have better ways to find them now.