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As Australia closes in on eliminating one cancer, another is showing up earlier in life (www.sbs.com.au)
submitted 2 days ago by okwithmydecay@leminal.space to c/australia@aussie.zone
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Cervical cancer is vanishing from a generation of Australian women, with a new national data report revealing it's happening one age bracket at a time.

Bowel cancer, a disease in retreat across every older age group in the country, has roughly tripled among Australians in their 30s over the past twenty-five years, the report shows — and alone among cancers in that age group, the extra diagnoses are showing up as extra deaths.

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[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One Cancer

Good name for a political party.

[–] busted_Anoose@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

Malignant Ginger

[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My hypothesis, plastic ingestion +/- increasing processed foods. It's an endocrine disruptor.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plastic is not an endocrine disruptor. That junk science was debunked years ago.

Plastics have been around in common use now for 60 years. This is about shitty diets of processed food.

[–] YeahToast@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago

I mean there's countless research papers identifying the impact, so I'm not sure what you mean by debunked? Yes 60 years of plastic... Which our exposure continues to grow due to plastic now being in increasing concentrations in the ocean, foods etc.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Increasingly low value foods chewing up your insides

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

It's because of Frito lays dynamite. That stuff looks like cancer from the bag.