Alcohol pretty much overshadows all other preventable causes of cancer except tobacco. Environmental pollution, yes, of great concern. Alcohol is literally, "hold my beer". The carcinogenic risk of alcohol consumption is not hypothetical--it's been proven over and over for the past eighty years.

All shorebirds are the best shorebird, but somehow my fave is the Marbled Godwit. I guess I just love that silly upturned beak.

That is a nice one--never seen it. My current motto is "I try to enjoy each taxon equally". I can afford to do that, though, being an amateur.

Certainly seems plausible. Perhaps some epidemiologist out there is studying cancer incidence in post-Covid patients.

For easily modified exposures in typical Western populations, alcohol is about #3. #1 (by far) is tobacco smoking, #2 is obesity. Good news is that half or more of all cancers are due to risk factors that can be modified.
acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

And, not to beat a dead horse, but the link between heavy alcohol consumption and health effects, including cancer, cannot be emphasized enough. Paper linked below discusses liver disease, including liver cancer:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Original paper referred to in the article above:
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Follow-up documenting the post-pandemic surge in binge-drinking, which has persisted:
news.keckmedicine.org/pandemic-era...

For some cancers, it is possible this is due to the post-pandemic and ongoing increase in binge drinking among younger people. Alcohol is little-appreciated as a potent carcinogen. Here's one example of research on this:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39425225/

Oh, "right after this time we need help". Just like the power failures a few years ago, and how many hurricanes. And Texas might just secede if federal overreach does not stop--right after you help us with our latest disaster.
www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

President T is declaring a disaster and calling in FEMA, as is totally appropriate for any state of the union. Of course, he has promised to get rid of FEMA "after this hurricane season". Gov. Abbott has said he is ready for FEMA to be eliminated just a couple of weeks ago. Why wait?

One Texas official blames the NWS: “Listen, everybody got the forecast from the National Weather Service, right?” Kidd said. “You all got it, you’re all in media, you got that forecast. It did not predict the amount of rain that we saw.”
www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-...