• IceWallowCum [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Per the guardian’s chart, it appears digestive tract cancers are more incident than the others analysed, but decreased from 1990 to now, while breast and skin cancer have become more common among the collected data. I wonder if it has anything to do with better access to early diagnosis in poorer countries, as the data is global. The article doesnt seem to mention it, can anyone check the primary source? On work right now.

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      1 year ago

      That’s possible, although with global warming I’d expect skin cancers to rise. Didn’t a bunch of antacids have talc in them and recently talc was associated with a bunch of cancers? Maybe that awareness is reducing digestive cancers. Nitrites/nitrates were associated with colorectal cancers too and people seem to be avoiding them better now.