Cervical cancer is vanishing from a generation of Australian women, with a new national data report revealing it’s happening one age bracket at a time.

Bowel cancer, a disease in retreat across every older age group in the country, has roughly tripled among Australians in their 30s over the past twenty-five years, the report shows — and alone among cancers in that age group, the extra diagnoses are showing up as extra deaths.

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    3 days ago

    My hypothesis, plastic ingestion +/- increasing processed foods. It’s an endocrine disruptor.

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      Plastic is not an endocrine disruptor. That junk science was debunked years ago.

      Plastics have been around in common use now for 60 years. This is about shitty diets of processed food.

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        I mean there’s countless research papers identifying the impact, so I’m not sure what you mean by debunked? Yes 60 years of plastic… Which our exposure continues to grow due to plastic now being in increasing concentrations in the ocean, foods etc.