Why has pancreas cancer doubled in the last 20 years?

Dr. Marty Makary: "Well, groupthink is a powerful force. And in medicine, we get sort of medical dogma that takes on a life of its own and it permeates. And what we develop are these giant blind spots, these areas of medicine and health that affect every aspect of everything we're doing of every person's health, but we never talk about them. The microbiome, the poison food supply, the toxins we're exposed to, the bad recommendations that we put out there, the fact that some of our modern day health crises have been caused by the hubris of the medical establishment. We said opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid epidemic. Yes. We said we gave the wrong advice on peanut allergies, igniting the modern day peanut allergy epidemic. So when we use good science and medicine, we can help a lot of people. But when we use the opinions of a small group of leaders and central planners in medicine, where they issue these broad edicts, we have a lousy track record, food pyramid, the opioid epidemic, the obesity epidemic. So we've got to take a step back and actually ask, why is cancer doubling in many areas of GI cancer? My area of pancreas, I'm a pancreas specialist at Hopkins. We do more pancreatic care and pancreas cancer than any hospital in America. Never at any point in my 20 plus years there, did anyone ever stop and say: Why has pancreas cancer doubled in the last 20 years? Now they're all good people, they're my friends, they're great doctors, but we have done this terrible thing to doctors. We've put them on this war path where all they do is put out fires at the end stage. No one's asking the big questions. No one's asking why is autism been going up 14% each year for the last 23 years? Why are half our nation's children obese or overweight? Why are nearly a quarter of them dealing with fatty liver and pre-diabetes. I mean, this is a wellbeing issue for the country. It's a national security issue. It is a issue of the economy. This entire over-medicated population is a massive burden. I mean, a $4.7 trillion economy that's expanding like crazy. And we're sort of told by the politicians, oh, we were able to get Medicare to negotiate drug prices and save six billion dollars in the first year. Okay, that's great, but that's a drop in the ocean. We've got this much bigger blind spot in modern medicine."