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“I was 34 years old, in what I would consider incredible health. I worked out five to six days a week, very low body fat, ate really healthy, and was in no pain or anything, but I noticed some clotted blood in my stool on a few different occasions,” said Herting, who is now 44 and married to Amber. He added that his father was diagnosed with stage I colon cancer in his early 50s but said he had no other known family history of the disease.

Herting’s journey of battling early-onset cancer is an experience shared by a growing proportion of young adults.

Cancer patients are “increasingly shifting from older to middle-aged individuals,” according to a report released Wednesday by the American Cancer Society.

Among adults 65 and older, adults 50 to 64 and those younger than 50, “people aged younger than 50 years were the only one of these three age groups to experience an increase in overall cancer incidence” from 1995 to 2020, says the report, which was published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Even though the overall US population is aging, “we’re seeing a movement of cancer diagnosis into younger folks, despite the fact that there are more people that are in the older populations,” said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer for the American Cancer Society.

“So cancer diagnoses are shifting earlier,” he said. “There’s something going on here.”

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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 114 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Maybe microplastics and forever chemicals?

[-] infinitevalence@discuss.online 65 points 9 months ago

And highly processed foods?

[-] epyon22@programming.dev 34 points 9 months ago

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

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

This is so hard for me to accept in NJ; deli meat is a way of life around here!

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Grew up in dairy land where lunchmeat and beef were just everywhere. Both my grandmothers died of colon cancer. I've been vegetarian over 13 years and will never go back.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 9 months ago

The industry calls it "garbage feeding."

Don't worry, they view us very similarly to how they view other "livestock."

They'll just use fancier words when they're aiming it at humans because a lot of us know how to read, so they need to obfuscate it when it comes to us.

[-] dan1101@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

Food producers will go so far out of their way to avoid natural ingredients and preserve shelf life.

[-] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

But they’ll be sure to reduce shelf life for produce like eggs and dairy, gotta profit so even sell what used to be trash.

[-] gibmiser@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

No, it's obviously the guys and libtards.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

Screening is a normal thing these days...

This is compared to 95 and earlier.

People still had cancer then, they weren't just finding out till later. Now we find out early and do treatments.

We'd also need to compare general mortality rates. Dying from a car accident with undiagnosed cancer "hides" the cancer.

This is a good data point, but we need more

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 10 points 9 months ago

This would make sense if it would take 20 years for cancer to develop.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

The mortality rate from car accidents has been continually dropping.

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Unless you're a pedestrian. Rates of cars killing pedestrians have gone way up.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

I'm buying a car for my own protection. Why would I want to pay any more money for someone else's protection if they aren't in the car I bought?

/s

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

I'm certain the study took this into account. Usually people doing studies aren't idiots.

[-] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Considering that 20 years ago, a person had a 1/3 chance of getting cancer over their lifetime, any increase among younger people is concerning

[-] penguin_knight@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

the guy above you is saying that 1/3 chance of being DIAGNOSED with cancer is not the same as 1/3 chance of having cancer.

[-] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 0 points 9 months ago

(haven't read this particular study)
Most studies take those kinds of things into account

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 9 months ago

As an under-50 with cancer:

Yyyyyyep.

[-] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

Damn, good luck Snot Flickerman!

Please don't flick your cancerous snot around though!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

One of my closest friends got testicular cancer in his early 30s. Thankfully, he survived. His testicle did not.

[-] jak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

That’s why you have two!

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

He said it only made the other one more potent.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

There can be only one!

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 23 points 9 months ago

I feel like in a decade or two when there is more time to study long-term effects, the answer to all these issues will be microplastics.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

It will never be one thing. Some of it will be microplastics for sure, but there will be other causes too.

[-] nrezcm@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago
[-] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

There’s tons of chemicals in our drinking water. Highly recommend a reverse osmosis filter.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

So, if your dad died of colon cancer and you see blood in your stool…. Ya might wanna keep an eye on that.

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

That must be some kind of record as far as incongruous article photos go!

Those fuckers look almost DELIRIOUSLY happy next to an article about two of them being more likely to get cancer! 😄

Stress causes swelling, cancer is related to swelling, so that's a possibility

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Cancer is the result of a lot of things. At its core, it's a system run-amok due to:

  • Oxidation / free radicals.
  • Ionizing radiation damage.
  • Anything else that can damage the DNA itself (eg, asbestos).
  • Natural mutation / degradation having a cascading effect (copy of a copy).

Cancer happens every day in your body, but most mutations are easily identified and your Killer T (and natural killer) Cells eliminate them or they self-destruct (gross oversimplification, certainly). Cancer arises when there's a perfect storm that impacts these systems at a scale that can't be contained.

Stress is certainly one aspect of this. Chronic inflammation, chronic cortisol, CRP, etc... Is very taxing on the body.

So generally: don't stress your body out, don't expose yourself to anything that damages your DNA acutely, and don't so anything that requires a lot of turnover of new cells.

^ yeah, what he said. XD

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