Dylan Scott

And the way he put it to me is that at least anecdotally, people who practice cancer medicine, who treat cancer patients, it's like everybody kind of started to notice at the same time about a decade ago, like, huh, it seems like I'm starting to get more interested. and more young people coming in with more advanced cancers and more aggressive cancers.

And so then we started to see some of this data that I'm referencing that sought to quantify how big has the change really been. And they did confirm that, yeah, this isn't just people's perceptions at the population level. There are higher rates of cancers among young people.

And so then we started to see some of this data that I'm referencing that sought to quantify how big has the change really been. And they did confirm that, yeah, this isn't just people's perceptions at the population level. There are higher rates of cancers among young people.

And so then we started to see some of this data that I'm referencing that sought to quantify how big has the change really been. And they did confirm that, yeah, this isn't just people's perceptions at the population level. There are higher rates of cancers among young people.

Colorectal cancer, I think, is the big one. It is the, like, if you look at the incident rates in some of these studies, besides breast cancer, it is the type of cancer that has the highest incidence among young adults. But it's not just colorectal cancer. It's Uterine cancers, gallbladder, kidney cancers. People might have heard about Dwayne Wade, who is like by this definition, a young adult.

Colorectal cancer, I think, is the big one. It is the, like, if you look at the incident rates in some of these studies, besides breast cancer, it is the type of cancer that has the highest incidence among young adults. But it's not just colorectal cancer. It's Uterine cancers, gallbladder, kidney cancers. People might have heard about Dwayne Wade, who is like by this definition, a young adult.

Colorectal cancer, I think, is the big one. It is the, like, if you look at the incident rates in some of these studies, besides breast cancer, it is the type of cancer that has the highest incidence among young adults. But it's not just colorectal cancer. It's Uterine cancers, gallbladder, kidney cancers. People might have heard about Dwayne Wade, who is like by this definition, a young adult.

It seems to be sort of up and down the digestive track where this seems to be happening, with the one exception is breast cancer, which we've continued to see a higher rate of breast cancer among young people over the same period. But if we set that aside, which is obviously like a big exception, it seems to be a lot happening, yeah, up and down the digestive track.

It seems to be sort of up and down the digestive track where this seems to be happening, with the one exception is breast cancer, which we've continued to see a higher rate of breast cancer among young people over the same period. But if we set that aside, which is obviously like a big exception, it seems to be a lot happening, yeah, up and down the digestive track.

It seems to be sort of up and down the digestive track where this seems to be happening, with the one exception is breast cancer, which we've continued to see a higher rate of breast cancer among young people over the same period. But if we set that aside, which is obviously like a big exception, it seems to be a lot happening, yeah, up and down the digestive track.

That's where we're seeing in particular these big increases over time among young people.

That's where we're seeing in particular these big increases over time among young people.

That's where we're seeing in particular these big increases over time among young people.

So this is maybe the most interesting thing that I learned in reporting out this study and talking to a bunch of these cancer researchers who are as befuddled by all of this as we are. So it seems that your individual risk of many different types of cancers actually depends on something that's totally out of your control, which is when you were born.

So this is maybe the most interesting thing that I learned in reporting out this study and talking to a bunch of these cancer researchers who are as befuddled by all of this as we are. So it seems that your individual risk of many different types of cancers actually depends on something that's totally out of your control, which is when you were born.

So this is maybe the most interesting thing that I learned in reporting out this study and talking to a bunch of these cancer researchers who are as befuddled by all of this as we are. So it seems that your individual risk of many different types of cancers actually depends on something that's totally out of your control, which is when you were born.

Like somebody who was born in 1975 had nearly twice the chance of developing like an intestinal cancer compared to somebody who was born in 1955, 20 years earlier. And likewise, if we look like at younger people, people born in 1990, they're at even a higher risk of developing cancers than those people born in 1955 or even 1975. a couple of things likely at work here.

Like somebody who was born in 1975 had nearly twice the chance of developing like an intestinal cancer compared to somebody who was born in 1955, 20 years earlier. And likewise, if we look like at younger people, people born in 1990, they're at even a higher risk of developing cancers than those people born in 1955 or even 1975. a couple of things likely at work here.

Like somebody who was born in 1975 had nearly twice the chance of developing like an intestinal cancer compared to somebody who was born in 1955, 20 years earlier. And likewise, if we look like at younger people, people born in 1990, they're at even a higher risk of developing cancers than those people born in 1955 or even 1975. a couple of things likely at work here.

One does seem to be like the the changes in food production and the proliferation of processed foods, which is obviously something that like basically if you eat in the modern world, you're consuming more processed foods than people used to. And so there have been like systematic reviews of the available literature, including one that was published just in 2022.