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Colon cancer is rising in young Americans. It’s not clear why.
WaPo via msn ^ | Joel Achenbach, Laurie McGinley

Posted on 12/21/2023 11:25:59 AM PST by logi_cal869

The five people gathered around the restaurant table do not fit the profile of colon cancer patients. They’re female, and they’re young. Two were diagnosed in their 20s, one in her 30s, two in their early 40s.

Their colon cancer support group gathers about once a month to share stories, such as the one about the doctor who said you just need a laxative, the one about the oncologist who said there’s nothing we can do for you but give you chemotherapy the rest of your life, the one about friends saying, “You don’t look sick,” without realizing that isn’t helpful.

These women know all too painfully well that something strange is happening in the United States in the long war on cancer. Although progress has been substantial in lowering the overall death rate from cancer, deaths due to some types of cancer have increased among people younger than 50.

Colorectal cancer is one of the drivers of this trend. In the past three decades, incidence of the disease has risen significantly among people younger than 50, many of whom have no obvious risk factors, such as having a genetic predisposition. No one knows why.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer; coloncancer; food; quality; youth
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My sense of humor is biasing my comments, so I’m just gonna let the post percolate on its own…
1 posted on 12/21/2023 11:25:59 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: logi_cal869

Does anyone see what young Americans eat? Duh. It looks like early heart disease is just one risk.


2 posted on 12/21/2023 11:27:14 AM PST by cuban leaf (It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he's being fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: cuban leaf

Big Ag is killing people.


3 posted on 12/21/2023 11:27:58 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: logi_cal869

Could it be due to diet? Soda, fast food, that kind of thing?


4 posted on 12/21/2023 11:28:00 AM PST by albie
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Wonder how many of them are Vegans?


5 posted on 12/21/2023 11:28:31 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: logi_cal869

No exercise, poor diet, inadequate nutrition and fiber, pesticides and herbicides as well as preservatives and artificial everything in processed food, fast food diets and now the 💉 which some have said has contributed to ‘turbo cancer’.

Other than that, I dunno what could be causing an increase in cancer.


6 posted on 12/21/2023 11:29:20 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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Big Ag is killing people.

This.

Americans eat poison. Little wonder the rest of the world doesn't want our frankenfood.

7 posted on 12/21/2023 11:30:43 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: logi_cal869

If you look how a lot of them eat….the answer is clear.

Do you think they are eating a lot of salads and raw fruit?


8 posted on 12/21/2023 11:31:13 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Drew68

One of the reasons I would seriously consider moving the Europe. The quality of the food there is so much better, and it’s not even close.


9 posted on 12/21/2023 11:31:37 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: logi_cal869

Anxiety is nutured by an intense level of communications and rapid flows of information.


10 posted on 12/21/2023 11:32:38 AM PST by linMcHlp
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Big Ag is killing people.

I just returned from a work trip to Japan. I discovered what an actual tomato tasted like. It was sharp and tart. Quite delicious and unlike anything I've eaten here.

11 posted on 12/21/2023 11:33:15 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President. A conservative who fights and wins..)
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To: logi_cal869

Sodomy tends to do that.


12 posted on 12/21/2023 11:33:25 AM PST by CodeToad (Rule #1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: logi_cal869

DIET..........................


13 posted on 12/21/2023 11:35:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: logi_cal869

Cell phones in back pockets.


14 posted on 12/21/2023 11:35:07 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

Hm. There’s a thought.


15 posted on 12/21/2023 11:39:21 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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Oh! I know!

16 posted on 12/21/2023 11:39:39 AM PST by PGR88
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Colon cancer is rising in young Americans...”

Homosexuality is rising in young Americans.

Is there a connection??? You betcha!!!


17 posted on 12/21/2023 11:42:54 AM PST by elpadre
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To: logi_cal869

Anal “sex”? HPV can cause rectal cancer.... can’t see why it couldn’t cause colonic cancer. Oral “sex” and HPV is known to cause back of the throat, tonsillar, and base of the tongue cancers...no big stretch here...no pun intended.
Even if they associate the colon cancers with HPV....would not expect a change in behaviour...HIV, monkeypox, syphilis., Chlamydia, herpes, gonorrhea hasn’t changed the behaviour very much.
Recent report of 5 different women who had “sex” at different times with one man known to have untreated syphilis. The women all had to be treated for syphilis infection of their eyes. Gee, I wonder how that happened....


18 posted on 12/21/2023 11:43:17 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: logi_cal869

Too much “spicy” food and screamin’ hot peppers. Their colons are surrendering.


19 posted on 12/21/2023 11:43:27 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The American Taxpayers don't owe anybody an instant "I want it now" version of the American dream.)
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20 posted on 12/21/2023 11:44:09 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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