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TaupeRangeryesterday at 6:43 PM1 replyview on HN

Not really. Osteosarcoma rates have remained very stable for decades. Some young people are getting diagnosed with colon/breast cancer at increasing rates, but most of that comes down to better diagnostics and imagining, catching things at earlier ages.


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moooo99yesterday at 10:31 PM

But isn‘t colon cancer in young people primarily an example of rates actually increasing, because young people specifically often get easily dismissed based on their age.