As cancer cases rise among young adults in the United States, a new study has identified 17 cancer types that appear to be more common in Generation X and millennials than older age groups.
Among adults born between 1920 and 1990, there is a significant difference between each generation in the incidence of cancer rates and cancer types, including breast, colon and rectal, pancreatic and uterine cancers, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal The Lancet Public Health.
“Uterine cancer is one that really jumps out where we see tremendous increases. It has about a 169% higher incidence rate if you’re born in the 1990s as opposed to if you’re born in the 1950s – and this is for people at the same age. Someone born in the 1950s, when they were in their 30s or 40s, saw a different incidence rate compared with someone born in the 1990s in their 30s or 40s,” said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer for the American Cancer Society, whose colleagues authored the new study.
Pretty damning considering previous generations were doing things like playing in the DDT fog, or breathing in leaded gasoline exhaust. Dafuq are we doing to ourselves?!
Ultra-processed foods
Epigenetics. It’s not only about what we experience but what our grandparents experienced.
Yep, this’ll be the answer. They’re passing their cancer-prone DNA on after it gets fucked up while they’re developing. We’re the 3rd or 4th generation since plastics came around so we’ve had time to stack things up.