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I often wonder if Ultra-processed modern foods, and all these questionable ingredients are responsible for most of the increases in these cancers?
Or microplastics?
Or PFAS, Glyphosate ...
PFSA... kinda?, glyphosate...maybe...? honestly we've done a ton of studies since glyphosate was first created in the 70s there really aren't any known significant health risks. Personally I'd be more concerned about the environmental problems of herbicides running off and affecting the wider environment.
Just a known carcinogen in our food. Why have cancer rates exploded? Oh, I dunno. Lol.
I was just casually pointing out some of the better known substances. The true risks are the >350,000 novel chemical compounds we make and release into the environment in ever increasing volumes with no meaningful data on the short or long term repercussions.
You want to be concerned about something? It's not the dangers of the things we know of. It's what we don't see coming that's going to get us.
We are exceeding our planetary boundaries.
I think cancer rates going up are a lot of things. I think medicine overall has gotten significantly better that because people aren't dying nearly as young as they used to are then able to go on to develop cancer they otherwise wouldn't have, I think that our increasingly sedentary lifestyles are certainly not helpful, I think the constant stresses of daily existence under late stage capitalism is extremely unhealthy, I think the amount of high calorie low nutrition highly processed foods we consume have a huge affect. Also cancer is an extremely large umbrella term for an affliction that comes about in more ways than there are cancers, melanoma comes from prolonged UV exposure, lung and mouth cancer come from a wide array of carcinogens operating on numerous mechanism, like Radon works completely differently from tobacco smoke and diferently from asbestos.
I think there is much stronger evidence for a multitude of other things causing cancer than solely glyphosate.
Lack of fiber is a big player in colon cancer apparently.
I don't know what ultraprocessed foods you're sticking in your cooch to get cervical cancer, but I'm guessing there's not a lot of research on that.
Anything that damages the gut microbiome. Ultra-processed foods are one of many things. Antibiotics may be the biggest factor.
I think there is just too much bad shit that we are exposed to, to find one specific reason.
Yes, the oncogenic paradox... We don't know what causes cancer... But ever source of inflammation seems to increase risk... The mitochondrial theory of cancer (Seyfried, Warburg) would say the high glucose environment people create in their blood is the core reason for the surge of modern cancers.
Isn’t there an effective vaccine for cervical?
My spouse just went through cervical cancer.
The vaccine that prevents it is the HPV vaccine.
However, it needs to be administered before the age of 14 for it to be effective for the rest of your life.
Apparently, 75% of the population has an HPV.
Sooooo.... yeah.
It can be administered at anytime. It's usually given at 14 because most people aren't sexually active before then.
If you are older, it can still help. If you are a man without contact with HPV, you could become immune.
I could be wrong, but I got it at 30 even after having partners.
The HPV virus is also slowely being implicated in causing some throat, neck, and tonsillar cancers in men. The vaccine in men helps prevent those too. It is argued that everyone should get it, and the younger the better (younger as in around 14, not 20's or 30's).
Yeah. I got it because it was free for me and I was pretty confident I didn't have it. Seemed like a no downside thing.
Better at 14, but you can still do it later
It wasn't required for millennial men to get the vaccine. It's only recently they started pushing for everyone to get it.
There was also a lot of scare-mongering when it was introduced. My parents' church said that HPV was punishment from god for casual sex, and the vaccine would guarantee I'd go to hell, so they didn't let me get it.
I'm sorry your parents failed you there.
I'm surprised cervical is up, the hpv vaccine was supposed to do a number on that one