Why More Young People Are Getting Cancer | Business Insider Explains | Insider News

More people, from their teens to young adults, are getting cancer than ever before, leaving researchers scrambling for clues. Here's what we know, and how you can protect yourself.

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00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Countries Where Rates Of Cancer Are Rising
01:17 - The 14 Cancers Rising Among Young People
01:40 - Being Diagnosed At A Young Age
02:51 - The Rise Of Colorectal Cancer
03:07 - Fighting The Stigma Around Colorectal Cancer
03:36 - The Death Of Chadwick Bozeman
03:50 - Contributing Factors To Rising Cancer Rates
04:35 - The Role Of Diet In Increasing Cancer Risk
05:03 - Impact Of Inactivity And Poor Sleep
05:30 - Environmental Factors
06:00 - Height As A Potential Cancer Risk Factor
06:26 - Birth By C-Section And Cancer Risk
07:05 - Reducing The Risk Of Cancer
08:02 - Advancements In Cancer Treatments
08:36 - Credits

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Why More Young People Are Getting Cancer | Business Insider Explains | Insider News

[BGTech]

Increasing numbers of Carcinogenic substances are in the food we eat and drink and in the air we breathe. It all comes down to the fact that massive companies don’t care that they are poising people.

[Taloskr]

I was diagnosed at age 22 with colorectal cancer stage 2b little over a year ago, but as of February I am cancer free

[spitfire]

21 years old here, diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma stage 4 I start my chemo next week all the way till January. Wish me luck guys

[edmondgoddy]

Cancer is such a devastating diagnosis. My heart goes out to anyone and their loved ones going through this battle. We need more awareness and research funding to support those impacted.

[jaelnava_]

I was diagnosed at 27 with testicular cancer. Zero evidence of cancer in my family. Very healthy lifestyle. I just beat it and I'm alive.

[TheMinishKid]

age 45 here, diagnosed stage 3b colon cancer. No symptoms. Found a massive peach sized tumor during my first colonoscopy. Non-smoker, non-drinker, relatively healthy eater. Something is going on...my theory is either microplastics, microbiome, or processed meats. Time will tell. Hopefully I'll live to see the solution!

[hadi_re]

My brother was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer at the age of 19. He never smoked or drank alcohol. He was very focused on his studies and was a medical student. It was a shock to the whole family. He underwent dozens of surgical procedures and chemotherapy. He died two years later at the age of 21. It’s been three years now and I still ask myself why. As a doctor, I know that colon cancer at this age is rare and uncommon. I started to look into our family history and didn’t find any cases of colon cancer. We come from Syria, so I started to suspect that the war, the psychological stress, the chemical weapons that have been used, and other factors might have played a role. I still cannot believe it, and I don’t want to believe that he’s gone.

[michaellorton]

Physician with undergraduate major in chemistry and minor in molecular biology here. A large and growing body of knowledge demonstrates a strong association of persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic (PBT) chemicals (e.g., pesticides, polyfluoroalkyl substances—PFAS, hazardous wastes, endocrine disruptor chemicals—EDCs, and antimicrobials) in our water and residues on our foods with rising incidences of early-onset cancers, dementia, obesity, infertility, and untreatable infections. Many of these PBT chemicals are mutagens causing genomic changes but even more cause epigenetic changes that a) increase expression of oncogenes and/or b) decrease expression of tumor suppressor genes. While the body does metabolize and breakdown many of those chemicals, their large and growing concentrations in the environment can overwhelm the bodies defenses. Those adverse genetic and epigenetic changes are often supercharged by complex mixtures of said PBT chemicals which are difficult to study under usual pathophysiological analyses. Almost all of the adverse carcinogenic consequences are dose-dependent.
Unfortunately, many of the PBT chemicals are necessary evils. A world with eight (8) billion people requires a lot of food and it is estimated that various crop yields would fall between 60-80% if we did not use complex, highly toxic mixtures of many pesticides. Yes, we are developing alternative pest control methods (e.g., iRNA, gene drives, etc.) but they have not proved as effective as we would like and cause problems of their own. Equally unfortunately, we are seeing a high degree and accelerating flora and fauna resistance to pesticides. The “pesticide treadmill” goes ever faster as we apply even more toxic multiple-pesticide mixtures—which induce more resistance and on and on . . . PFAS are extremely beneficial fire retardant chemicals but are called “ forever chemicals” because they are so difficult to degrade. We are damned if we do, and damned if we don’t.
I am not employed by, do not represent (I am also an attorney), nor am invested in any companies that make or distribute such PBT chemicals. I strongly advocate for the minimum use of such chemicals and then only when absolutely necessary. I mean no offense, but the internet is filled with people beset by emotional, one dimensional thinking who will immediately condemn “evil, greedy corporations”. While there certainly is some of that and those people should be made to answer, many times completely banning the chemicals in question (like pesticides) would lead to even greater short-term harms (e.g., plummeting crop yields with attendant starvation) as unintended consequences. We must act forcefully and decisively, but we must not act rashly without weighing sometimes brutal trade-offs.
We have a highly talented team and are working on large-scale, commercially-viable methods of separation, collection, and elemental degradation of said PBT chemicals. Our most frustrating impediments have been the turgid, lazy, self-serving bureaucracies in our state and federal governments. The science, technology, and business methods are available. Our questions are: 1) As Americans, are we entitled to pursue life, liberty, and freedom from horrible diseases? and 2) Why should we have to beg arrogant, often unethical bureaucrats to do their jobs?

[Novastar.SaberCombat]

Excluding the super-wealthy, people are exhausted, over-worked, mentally drained, uninspired, their jobs are being taken by technology, they have NO possible chance to eat well, and the environment is becoming more and more toxic by the day. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT.

[obsoleteobsession]

"Go get a screening" sounds like great advice until you try and do it - pay $300/mo for insurance and still get a patient responsibility of $3, 000 because "you're not old enough to be considered at-risk." Regarding terminal medical issues that are disproportionately growing in young people in an economy that disproportionately punishes young people, this won't stop being a problem until healthcare infrastructure starts caring more about Hippocratic ethics than they do profiting for shareholders.

[M_aze]

I'm from Africa & we barely have any cancer here. I've never seen a business colleague, friend, family of a friend & not anyone in my wide social structure ever had cancer. People in developed countries fight your government's to only approve organic food, the same way they have now done in Russia. Cancer isn't a disease it's consumed through food so big pharma can charge you for treatment, it's a business ❗

[valeriesilva]

I was told I was too young (21yrs) for anything to “really” be wrong so to just go home and elevate my foot(since my ankle was swelling so bad and hurting like hell). Turns out I had DLBC Lymphoma coming from the bone marrow. This was 2023, now in 2024 Im officially cancer free, thank God. But I still cant shake the feeling that even Doctors are in denial that young people getting cancer is a higher and higher risk each frickin day!!!

[GrillWasabi]

Dumb question. Cancer causing labels on almost every food items and products. Law makers need to ban all cancer causing chemicals in our food and products.

[kyayaarmonuu]

17 when I was diagnosed with Brain tumour. I was badly abused in my childhood by school kids and neighborhood kids. Nobody was there to take stand for me. Not even my father. Initially my life bought me here. I'm 21 now...

[LauraG]

39, currently dealing with breast cancer. Active lifestyle, eating healthy, little alcohol, no smoking, no cases in the family. Plus, generally mindful about type of products I'm buying for many years, trying to buy the eco-friendly ones as much as possible. And still, here I am. The only thing I would think it might have contributed is a significant amount of stress I dealt with in the previous years. However, I guess nobody really knows for sure why we find ourselves in this situation. Grateful for screening, grateful for advance of medicine that gives us a chance to life.

[johng]

Our food is largely processed and poisoned, our water is full of plastic and PFAS, the air is polluted, it really isn't hard to figure out.

[Marissa-ysqp]

And yet young people aren't recommended to get screened for things like breast or colon cancer because they're "too young." And then there's imaging you can get that can point out early cancer (MRCPs and MRIs), but doctors/insurance won't allow/cover it because they don't think it's "necessary."

[theleshan]

We stopped eating food and started eating weird things that taste like food. In my biochemistry class, we learned about many different compounds found in processed food that are carconogenic. More so, deep frying food improperly leads to the formation of carconogenic compounds. It is all in the food.

[peterdockrill]

My uncle died from pancreatic cancer age 45, he worked at Kellogg s and use to eat a lot of their products

[samlee]

I was diagnosed as acute leukemia while I am 21 on my birthday. Now I’m in remission after I did bone marrow stem cells transplant. If you are in cancer treatment, one day at a time, if I can do it you can do it. If you don’t have cancer, stay healthy, don’t get angry and stressed so often, enjoy life more❤