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?
My main suspect was increased red meat/cured meat consumption, but it doesn’t seem like the data actually supports that theory.
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.
Teflon is not an issue, the problem is the stuff used to make 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.