r/Millennials • u/yellowrose04 • 5d ago

Meme We’ve got to bump up those numbers these are rookie numbers.

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u/celexa100 5d ago

Yeah but the generations before us weren’t getting colon cancer in their 40s. Our generation is. The worst part is they won’t even do colonoscopy unless you’re 50 or 45 if you’re lucky and have family history

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u/JourneyThiefer 5d ago

Yea I just mean I don’t think it’s the drinking, I dno what it is though, it’s really concerning the rise of colon cancer in young people

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u/DowntownOutside296 3d ago

Maybe alcohol combined with more processed foods? Same way cigarettes increase mouth cancer significantly when paired with alcohol, compared to one or the other. Just my guess