[mglz]

The article seems to skip over the pandemic, which has changed behaviours significantly. Also, the Coronavirus itself is suspected to promote cancer [1].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10202899/

[candiddevmike]

There is some correlation between COVID exhausting certain white blood cells that fight cancer:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-021-00750-4

[dahart]

It’s almost certainly much too early to have any data on the relationship between the pandemic and cancer. Cancer causing factors may take decades to turn into detectable cancers, and even if the data were available, publishing them can take a couple of years on top.

[pimlottc]

The study in question looks at data from before the pandemic: "Global trends in incidence, death, burden and risk factors of early-onset cancer from 1990 to 2019"

[ekianjo]

yes and then there is the elephant in the room nobody talks about: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10184721/

[logicchains]

The pseudouridine in the current generation of mRNA vaccines has also been demonstrated to promote cancer growth: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01418...