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.
We’re on Lemmy, every evil in the world is the result of capitalism.
Doesn’t make it less true.
True. But if you scream “capitalism!” Every time something goes wrong, it calls into question how much critical thought actually went into that.
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.