Since 1990, cancer in people aged 18 to 49 has increased by 80 per cent worldwide. But why?
“I played competitive sports all my life, and typically, I run four mornings a week,” says the 40-year-old Irishman who works in marketing.So it was unusual when, in August 2022, Moynihan found himself unable to run more than one kilometre without needing to stop – he felt “zapped”. A visit to his GP in Melbourne proved unhelpful.
At 5.30pm on Christmas Eve, 2022, Moynihan met with the surgeon and was told he had stage 2 bowel cancer. Within two weeks he had surgery to remove about half of his large colon.“I did almost blame myself. I was like, ‘OK, was my diet bad?’ It wasn’t. ‘Was I stressed at work?’ I wasn’t. ‘Did I not get enough sleep?’ I was getting plenty of sleep. But unfortunately, I could not help but go, ‘Well, there’s a reason this has happened to me, and it is probably because of my own choices’.
There is complexity to the issue, says Dr Nicholas Chartres, senior research fellow at the University of Sydney’s medicine faculty. However, he returns to Barreto’s point about critical exposure windows, such as in utero and childhood.“Being exposed to all these contaminants in the critical developmental window makes us more susceptible and likely to develop a non-communicable disease at an earlier life stage,” says Chartres.
“They looked at cancers specifically linked to pesticides, such as breast cancer and soft tissue cancer, and found no evidence that a woman’s overall cancer risk was decreased if she generally ate organic food,” Varlow says. “Foods Standards Australia New Zealand has also advised that the chemical residues on conventionally produced foods are so low that they aren’t considered a health risk.”Breast screening is recommended for women aged 50-74 and should be repeated every two years.
Moynihan, who took a year off work to recover physically and mentally, says his energy is slowly returning, but he is still awaiting follow-up scans.
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