I recently read a Time article about increasing cancer rates in young people, typically laid out with opinions from various researchers. The article infrequently mentions the frighteningly large increase in obesity rates in the last 20 years, but I imagine the combination of that and better screening/earlier diagnosis aren’t the only significant factors. Or maybe they are. As is common, the researchers seem to point out “diets high in red meat” and smoking but avoid emphasizing obesity specifically.
Are there better or novel explanations within the medical community, or is it indeed somewhat puzzling?
I would in fact say that obesity and increased screening/detection are by far and away the major factors here. I wouldn’t assume differently unless presented with more compelling data for other causes.
Thanks, I’m sure reference to this will come up organically in conversation somewhere over the next few months. I thought the lack of significant attention given to obesity nearly doubling the last 25 years was a bit suspect, as was the cherry-picked examples of people who weren’t obese, since it’s a Time article and not a scientific paper.