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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.

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[-] LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Processed meats? But I feel like they were always around

[-] butters@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah ham when I grew up was the processed stuff formed into logs. Devon? Lovely on a sandwich with tomato sauce but I have no idea what was in it!

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

I feel like it's something use to make food, like, idk, cyclodextrins or something.

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