Important Takeaways:
- Now doctors face new cancer crisis – mystery rise of lung tumors in young people who’ve NEVER smoked
- As scientists work to unravel the mysterious rise in early-onset colon cancers, a new worrying trend has emerged.
- Lung cancer rates, which have been dropping for decades as the world weans off tobacco, are now rising in young, otherwise healthy people who’ve never smoked.
- One in 10 lung cancer diagnoses in the US are patients under 55, but the rate of early cases has been increasing for the past two decades. And the share of these young patients who have never smoked cigarettes is also growing.
- Researchers believe that the way new homes are built may be exposing residents to a poisonous gas. They also say vaping and cannabis could be factors.
- Lung cancer is the deadliest form of the disease, making up one in five US cancer deaths. Along with over 230,000 diagnoses, 125,000 Americans are expected to die of it this year.
- ‘Radon is the main cause of cancer in non-smokers,’ Dr Mezquita said. ‘Radon is a risk factor also in young populations.’
- She said this could be due to radon exposure in homes from birth, which could enter the home through contaminated soil.
- Additionally, a 2019 report in Nature found that radon exposure in homes is increasing due to modern construction being more airtight.
- Dr Mezquita also pointed toward vaping, which she noted ‘is very prevalent in younger populations.’
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Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Important Takeaways:
- Vanessa Chapoy had just turned 24 when she felt the lump in her breast. It was “huge,” she remembers, “like the size of a walnut, or a big marble.” She went to the first in a series of doctors that night to have it checked out. Two-and-a-half weeks later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Stage two, she would learn.
- “And my whole world flipped upside down,” Chapoy says.
- She entered a gauntlet of treatments: a lumpectomy to cut out the tumor and a portion of surrounding breast tissue, fertility treatments so she could freeze her eggs, five months of chemotherapy and then a double mastectomy to remove both of her breasts.
- Three years on, she’s still undergoing hormone therapy — an experience she likens to “early menopause”
- In the U.S., the rate of early-onset cases rose by almost 18 percent between 2000 and 2019, even as cancer declined slightly in older adults, according to data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Among Americans between 15 and 39 years old, an age group cancer researchers refer to as adolescents and young adults (AYAs), the surge was more pronounced still, topping 20 percent.
- Why? Cancer researchers aren’t entirely sure.
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Luke 21:11 “There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.”
Important Takeaways:
- Catastrophic Contagion
- The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, in partnership with WHO and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted Catastrophic Contagion, a pandemic tabletop exercise at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022.
- The exercise simulated a series of WHO emergency health advisory board meetings addressing a fictional pandemic set in the near future. Participants grappled with how to respond to an epidemic located in one part of the world that then spread rapidly, becoming a pandemic with a higher fatality rate than COVID-19 and disproportionately affecting children and young people.
- Participants were challenged to make urgent policy decisions with limited information in the face of uncertainty.
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