Cancer of the appendix, the small pouch-like organ attached to the large intestine that supports the immune system, affects 1 or 2 people for every million people in the U.S., according to the research.
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This is an odd one. Microplastics?
Could also be better diagnostics. A lot of diseases are becoming much more common just because we can recognise them more easily.
I wouldn’t be surprised. Or plastics… or steroids in meat… Or C8/Teflon.
We’ve been pumping epic volumes of literally thousands of untested chemical compounds into the environment for over a century.
It’s probably all of the above.
Teflon is not a metal but a PFAS or forever chemical made of Carbon and Fluorine.
Teflon is not an issue, the problem is the stuff used to make teflon
My main suspect was increased red meat/cured meat consumption, but it doesn’t seem like the data actually supports that theory.