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An early release of findings from an Australian study published in medRxiv this week showed the incidence of bowel cancer is up to three times higher among Australians born in the 1990s compared with the 1950s cohort.

Bowel cancer is now the leading cause of death in people aged 25 to 44 in Australia.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And I'm also surprised it was higher for 25-44 than 15-24, although it could simply be that vehicle accidents knocked it down a spot.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah I don't have much of an intuition of how accidental poisoning would change between those ages, but 17–25 is famously the most dangerous age on the road, so I wasn't surprised to see it higher.

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