11 tumori in aumento tra i giovani: gli scienziati trovano il primo indizio sul perché sta accadendo

There is a bit of a problem with some GPs in particularly just not taking symptoms seriously if you’re young. I get the impression some forget that “unlikely” is not the same as “impossible”. Seems like an excessive amount of focus is put on the elderly at the expense of ignoring young people who develop these kinds of health issues.

The fact that this first clue points towards rising obesity levels is about as surprising as thunder following lightning.

*Edit* Please, people, read what I actually wrote before giving your two cents.

Saying that it is not surprising that this clue points towards rising obesity levels does not mean I am saying that this is the only, or even the most important factor in play. I am simply saying that it is not surprising that rising obesity levels are apparently a factor.

Bowel cancer is presumably rising because we don’t know how to cook properly for ourselves, we’re detached from natural world and butchery/harvests, ingredients are more expensive than ever, and the quality of what we do consume is arguably not even real food a lot of the time.

We don’t need to wait for a study to show this – we know we’re drifting further from natural (except the gym folk who take nutrition seriously). We could take stronger steps now by introducing an entire subject dedicated to practical teaching of cookery and nutrition in schools to build a habit from young age. I’d say it’s more vital than say learning 2 foreign languages, or some other subject you never use much in life, for example.

Likewise, if the problem could be in the farming industry, we could also do stuff like banning the use of ANY substances or practices in farming that haven’t been explicitly approved by central government (rather than allowing everything that hasn’t been explicitly banned).

There’s likely an element to this of just generally better health in general.

100 years ago, people with a genetic predisposition to early cancer might simply not have survived to pass on those genes, to the early cancers didn’t have increasing volumes.

Now, people with that disposition survive due to better healthcare, have kids, pass on the gene, and now there’s more people getting early cancer.

It’s likely not all that’s happening, but it’s definitely something that could happen.

Fairly certain its stress, and the unhealthy coping mechanisms associated with it.

Is the clue NHS incompetence and apathy when it comes to dealing with young people?

Truly shocking theres a rise when GPs dismiss symptoms in young people until they become undeniable.

A friend of mine was fobbed off by their GP for 6 months before they went private and the skilled private doctor referred him for urgent tests and found his terminal bowel cancer the NHS had dismissed until it was too late.

Moral of the story, if you have the misfortune of dealing with the NHS advocate for yourself or have someone prepared to fight tooth and nail for you. As the NHS will kill you otherwise

I’d imagine a lot are linked to diet and all of the processed crap we eat out of affordability and convenience

Doctors told me for over 5 weeks that my lower back pain “wasn’t serious” and I was “after a sick note/ medication”.

Took myself to A&E and found out i had a broken pelvis.

Gp’s are becoming so jaded they are useless.

GPs ignore you if you’re young.

I have vitiligo and first time I approached a GP, after months of anxiety, it was me trying to explain my situation to him about the symptoms, issues and all that but he kept arguing that it was normal and it was me not applying suncream correctly and bla bla bla, nothing to worry.

I went to a private dermatologist and as soon as I enter the door she looks at me and says something like “ah I can see why you’re here”. Diagnosed straight away.

I read this article and failed to find any sort of clue, just aimless non evidenced wittering about general healthy lifestyles that 80% of the time aren’t the case anyway

I feel like over the coming decades there’s going to be a lot more talk about Glyphosate herbicides usage on cereal products and links to bowel and colorectal cancer.

Glyphosates are a type of herbicide, meaning that they’re used to kill weeds. However, they are also a dessicant, meaning that if you spray the herbicide on cereal crops the chemicals dry the grains out.

This is good if you’re a farmer, because bringing in the harvest on cereal crops like oats, wheat and barley are one of the biggest events of the agricultural calendar; get it right, and you’re making big bucks, but get wrong and the losses can be devastating. The whole process is constantly threatened by changes in the weather, which you’re at the mercy of. But you equally can’t wait around forever because the plants only hold their grains for a short while before they begin to fall to the ground. 

As a consequence, in non-organic crops it is common practice to spray glyphosate herbicides on cereal crops like oats to dry them out, adding a layer of predictability to the harvest, as well speeding up the general process. Organic farmers can’t do this because in the UK they’re bound by a lot of strict laws on agrochemical usage, but non-organic farmers have a lot of free reign.

The problem with Glyphosate herbicides is that they saturate the grains and when you ingest these agrochemical-bathed grain products, you ingest the herbicide chemicals too. 

Research about Glyphosate herbicides many links to cancers have not been anywhere near as forthcoming as they should be though because agrochemical company giants such as Monsanto and Dow Chemicals have been going to great lengths to bury the literature because of the money they would stand to lose. They’re already facing big lawsuits over products such as RoundUp (another Glyphosate herbicide) links to cancer and these companies behave much like tobacco companies in how they operate.

My advice? As someone who comes from a family with both agricultural and scientific backgrounds, I would recommend that you switch to organic cereals where you can, if you can. 

“TL;DR”: There’s a lot of industry research corruption and suppression on Glyphosate herbicides usage on cereal crops and their links to bowel & colorectal cancers. 

Whatever you do, don’t blame the oil and gas companies, forever chemical companies, plastic producers, or other known harmful gases and products that make up a big chunk of our global economy/the running of it… It’s down to consumer choices, wink wink

Ironically, most people with bad diets will have, alongside less fibre (which could play a part in some cancers) more contact with foods and drinks made with these known bad chemicals, artifical sweeteners, nitrates, and other industrial things, mostly preservatives – plus the packaging itself, or the way the products is heated / cooked etc.. Ultra processed and fast food

Then you combine the fact a large proportion of those people are in low income, and therefore live in more polutted or negative environments, plus have higher % with less positive life style choices.. This could just be compounded “modern urbanisation”, and population demographic shift / normalisation of these traits we know are harmful and cause countless other issues. 

Having said this, unless the effect is culminating, which is why we’re seeing a sudden uptick in young people getting these cancers (as all of this stuff has been known since 50s to 70s,and well established within a decade or so I’d say broadly), the only “new” thing would be vaping I’d say; if the cancer-increase wasn’t due to attitude / lifestyle shift, but a “poison” (similar to how, on a “virgin” society’s statistics, smoking tobacco or drinking alcohol would have an effect to the statistics, becoming widespread, proportionally) – but I have no evidence of vaping causing this obviously. Neither can i directly for the surge in young people, however I can points to 100s of articles linking a lot of these oil derivatives or associated /as damaging products to known (especially rare) cancers 

Most bread has about 20 ingredients so it lasts weeks on a shelf, and thats just bread, I’d wager the shit in our food is causing a lot of bowel cancer cases.

Time for GPs to stop fobbing off patients with health concerns.

I might not seem young to a lot of redditors but let’s just say it was a shock to receive a rectal cancer diagnosis at 40.

I’m no saint,I like a drink and a rare steak but generally my health was really good. Workout 3 times a week, jogging twice a week. Lots of home cooked real food and only occasionally eating shite.

I have to say though, I’ve had nothing but a good experience with the NHS with it, from my GP to clatterbridge in Merseyside.

Doctors appointment was ‘probably hemorrhoids but let’s just make sure with some tests’. Results back and getting a call saying you have a colonoscopy in a few days, make sure you attend it and cancel any other plans.

Then the day of being told. As I got the news the nurse had already booked mri and ct scans the following week, met the surgeon the week after, in radiotherapy shortly after that.

Since then,surgery and currently doing adjuvant chemotherapy, all done in impressive timescales. The staff at clatterbridge and the surgery team and ward nurses at Whiston all brilliant.

The only issue I’ve had is complications have put me in A&E twice and frankly the service is a disgrace. I’m sure funding comes into it, and people that shouldn’t be there, but literally the attitude and outright laziness of many of the staff that work in it are a big problem.