Comment on Gen X and millennials three times more likely to be diagnosed with appendix cancer than their parents, study finds

the_q@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• lemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Could also be better diagnostics. A lot of diseases are becoming much more common just because we can recognise them more easily.

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• OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t be surprised. Or plastics… or steroids in meat… Or metals like Teflon.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We’ve been pumping epic volumes of literally thousands of untested chemical compounds into the environment for over a century.

    It’s probably all of the above.

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Teflon is not a metal but a PFAS or forever chemical made of Carbon and Fluorine.

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  • calavera@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Teflon is not an issue, the problem is the stuff used to make teflon

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• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  My main suspect was increased red meat/cured meat consumption, but it doesn’t seem like the data actually supports that theory.

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