MAYBE BECAUSE PEOPLE KEEP THEIR APPENDICES NOW? A Forgotten Cancer Is Rising in Young People, And Experts Are Puzzled. “Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.”

Actually there seems to be more than that going on here. But I heard some students talking about tonsil stones recently and I realized I never used to hear about those, probably because most people in my generation had their tonsils out at like five years old.