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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] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

This is surprising. It wasn't even in the top 5 a couple of years ago, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (gov).

[edit: another article the day after says it's "the deadliest cancer for Australians aged 25 to 44", which I suspect may have been mistakenly transformed into "leading cause of death"]

https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/life-expectancy-deaths/deaths-in-australia/contents/leading-causes-of-death

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Thanks, I was finding it pretty astounding as well, so it'd make sense if it was the misinterpretation you've described. Maybe send the Guardian a message noting it so they can check?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I am astonished that "accidental poisoning" is higher than car crashes in 25–44.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Maybe it’s overdose from drugs?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Turns out Vegemite is destroying gut flora. /s

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

are you six-foot-four and full of muscle?
because it sounds like you speak-a my language

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Up you go!!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Oh no no no ... The younger generation of Australians DON'T eat Vegemite. Consequently, they're growing weak and unhealthy.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Sounds like a pain in the ass

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Gets you right in the gut

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Microplastics, sugar, corn syrup, aspartame, taurine (and who knows wtf else in those energy drinks), caffeine, high cholesterol fats and overprocessed foods, lack of exercise... I wonder if there's any correlation with incidences of auto-immune diseases 🤔

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Might want to figure out what major dietary changes happened in the country starting in the 1990s.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Mass consumption of "low fat" (high sugar) processed food like products?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

there's a documentary on netflix about this called "Hack Your Health: The Secret of Your Gut" and it really opened my eyes to this subject! eat your whole vegetables people!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Obesity is a major predictor of colorectal cancer, which has become more common since the 1990s. Physical exercise and fibre intake may also be independently associated with lower rates of colorectal cancer as well.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Its a relative measurement.

The bowel cancer rate has fallen in over 65s because of the increase in screening.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I don't think your interpretation is correct. I think that comparison was of data for the two cohorts when they were the same age.

The study, yet to be peer-reviewed, found 28,265 cases of early-onset bowel cancer over the 30 years studied. An estimated 4,347 additional cases were attributable to the rising rates of the disease.

Early-onset cases, however, are increasing by up to 8% per year, the study found.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

More microplastics?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah ham when I grew up was the processed stuff formed into logs. Devon? Lovely on a sandwich with tomato sauce but I have no idea what was in it!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I feel like it's something use to make food, like, idk, cyclodextrins or something.

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