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A Forgotten Cancer Is Surging in Young People, And Experts Are Puzzled
ScienceAlert ^ | 14 June 2025 | Justin Stebbing

Posted on 06/14/2025 7:30:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.

For decades, it was the kind of disease that doctors might encounter only once or twice in a career, and it was almost always found in older adults.

But now a surprising and concerning trend is emerging: appendix cancer is being diagnosed more often, and it's increasingly affecting people in their 30s, 40s and even younger. This shift has left many experts puzzled and searching for answers.

The appendix is a small, finger-shaped pouch attached to the large intestine. Its purpose in the body is still debated, but it's best known for causing appendicitis, a painful inflammation that often requires emergency surgery. What's less well known is that cancer can develop in the appendix, usually without any warning signs.

A new study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, has shown that the number of appendix cancer cases has increased dramatically among people born after the 1970s. In fact, the incidence has tripled or even quadrupled in younger generations compared with those born in the 1940s.

Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.

For decades, it was the kind of disease that doctors might encounter only once or twice in a career, and it was almost always found in older adults.

But now a surprising and concerning trend is emerging: appendix cancer is being diagnosed more often, and it's increasingly affecting people in their 30s, 40s and even younger. This shift has left many experts puzzled and searching for answers.

The appendix is a small, finger-shaped pouch attached to the large intestine. Its purpose in the body is still debated, but it's best known for causing appendicitis, a painful inflammation that often requires emergency surgery. What's less well known is that cancer can develop in the appendix, usually without any warning signs.

A new study, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, has shown that the number of appendix cancer cases has increased dramatically among people born after the 1970s. In fact, the incidence has tripled or even quadrupled in younger generations compared with those born in the 1940s.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: appendix; cancer; health
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1 posted on 06/14/2025 7:30:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Safe and effective.


2 posted on 06/14/2025 7:32:52 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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The appendix is a filter.

Like most filters, it can get overwhelmed leading to infection or total failure

So what would it be trying to filter lately that it wasn't before?

Not a clue.

3 posted on 06/14/2025 7:37:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DoodleBob
Yes, some (honest) epidemiology just might indicate a link between mRNA poisons and this tragic, yet heretofore rare cancer.
4 posted on 06/14/2025 7:38:27 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

You’re supposed to remove the lint every so often.


5 posted on 06/14/2025 7:40:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Helps keep your house from catching fire. :)

Really though a short fast does clean your body's filters.

Try going on a water fast a couple times a month. You will start to feel better.

6 posted on 06/14/2025 7:43:46 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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A Forgotten Cancer Is Surging in Young People, And Experts Are Puzzled

06/14/2025 7:30:27 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
ScienceAlert ^ | 14 June 2025 | Justin Stebbing

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4323107/posts


7 posted on 06/14/2025 7:44:08 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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A Forgotten Cancer Is Surging in Young People, And Experts Are Puzzled

06/13/2025 10:33:04 AM PDT · by ShadowAce · 70 replies
Science Alert ^ | 12 June 2025 | Justin Stebbing

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4322866/posts


8 posted on 06/14/2025 7:46:29 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
So what would it be trying to filter lately that it wasn't before?

Not a clue.

Go ahead, guess.

Give it your best shot...

9 posted on 06/14/2025 7:56:16 PM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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To: nickcarraway

🤔💉


10 posted on 06/14/2025 8:04:11 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Seaplaner

👍👍


11 posted on 06/14/2025 8:06:53 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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To: null and void
Give it your best shot...

Johnny Walker Blue!

12 posted on 06/14/2025 8:08:19 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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Good answer!


13 posted on 06/14/2025 8:36:25 PM PDT by null and void (Democrats: fake news, fake presidents, fake beliefs, fake policies, fake protesters & fake voters!)
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It's the best shot in the house. :)

And if I break it out one of three things is occurring, something very good, something very bad, or you are a good friend who stopped by.

14 posted on 06/14/2025 8:40:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: nickcarraway

Covid-19 Vax it’s not just for Myocarditis, pick a cancer ....


15 posted on 06/14/2025 8:41:20 PM PDT by BFW (loss of signal)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Plastic micro particles?


16 posted on 06/14/2025 8:52:46 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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Been around for at least 50 years.
17 posted on 06/14/2025 8:55:03 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder what kind of jab could have caused this?


18 posted on 06/14/2025 9:19:58 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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Take a shot in the dark. 🤔


19 posted on 06/14/2025 9:50:49 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: nickcarraway

Well the appendix serves as a restart resevoir of gut bacteria for the intestines. If an infection starts there you have appendicitis, usually. But many cancers start around an infection, ask docs who cut open tumors and find a bacterial infection in the center, so it may be something where the bodydeals with a small infection but the infected cells secrete enough problem chemicals to affect cells around them to turn cancerous.


20 posted on 06/14/2025 10:20:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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