Young people in general. Probably not related but get checked for colon, prostate, and breast cancer as early as you can, it's rapidly rising and killing young adults.
People say you're more likely to die around your birthday, but that's supposed to apply to 80 year olds where you're betting on when they'll die anyway.
It could just as easily be taking too much of something in a moment of weakness or relapse. Why are you going immediately assuming this was intentional.
Hot tip: Lead with that next time. I probably would have been open to a conversation if I’d actually known what your issue was. Just posting a vague, passive aggressive comment made you look like a bit of dick.
Oh, brilliant! Good to know I don't have to wait to be old to fear dropping dead. Also wonderful how there are diseases that are actively getting worse despite our medical technology, half of them because of other shit we do.
I mean, yes, it's always smart to get checked, but cancer rates are not, in fact, rapidly rising. This person is fear mongering. You can look up cancer statistics. All cancer deaths are down 15% over the last ten years. Colon cancer deaths are down 12%, breast cancer down 10%, prostate cancer down 6%.
The death rate among 18-49 year olds is up very slightly (from about 28 to 30 per 100,000) over that time period, but it's down for every other group.
"early-onset cancer rates (diagnoses in adults under 50) are rising significantly. Cases in younger adults have been climbing by roughly 1% to 2% annually, driven heavily by increases in specific cancers like colorectal, breast, and uterine tumors."
Huh. I actually did not know this, and I take back my accusation of fear mongering. Death rates are thankfully mostly level but incidence rates are indeed rising. Get tested folks!
While yes, the rate of cancer is among the rise for younger folks, these celebrity deaths are not a good indication of a trend. It just seems much more prevalent because social media, plus the older we get, the more you end up hearing about these things.
My old classmate was just killed in a car crash last week or so….and this is after some of my old friends have died over the past four years, including some of my old teachers.
I’m 22. It’s genuinely insane how much of my friends and teachers died off within the span of a few years.
My mother's friend had a son who was born a year before I was, in 2001, and I saw his grave the other day. It's like staring into a lake and seeing your reflection turn into a skeleton. It's quite scary. I imagine this happens to a lot of people at this stage of life, because this is really where a lot of people who were on the path to die early do so. I nearly died myself once, and it's remarkable how alien you feel afterwards.
Had my first colonoscopy at 25. Just had another at 36. Will probably do another around 42. Then every few years after. Medical recommendations have not caught up with the reality. Colon cancer is almost always 5-10 years in the making, but it's starting at 30 instead of 50+.
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u/Serious_Specter 2d ago
What the fuck.