An early release of findings from an Australian study published in medRxiv this week showed the incidence of bowel cancer is up to three times higher among Australians born in the 1990s compared with the 1950s cohort.
Bowel cancer is now the leading cause of death in people aged 25 to 44 in Australia.
This is surprising. It wasn’t even in the top 5 a couple of years ago, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (gov).
[edit: another article the day after says it’s “the deadliest cancer for Australians aged 25 to 44”, which I suspect may have been mistakenly transformed into “leading cause of death”]
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/life-expectancy-deaths/deaths-in-australia/contents/leading-causes-of-death
Wow, what could have happened during the last 5 years for such an increase in virtually no time?