Huge rise in cancer in friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Herbicides,/pesticides in our food chain and in our environment.

Bees are disappearing. Bugs are disappearing. We need to sit up and pay attention.

These products are meant TO KILL. Hello.

Quit spraying for bugs. Just deal with them, the way humans have always had to deal with them. Stop being wimps and spraying your yard for mosquitos.

I strongly agree with this. I sprayed one year. There were still mosquitoes! Yes, they were fewer, but there were still enough that they were annoying that it didn’t increase our time spent outdoors. I never sprayed again and I wish I had not killed the beneficial insects that season.

I have a family member with Parkinson’s, who was told that it was caused by pesticides. Not a farmer they actually grew up in the inner city. The stuff is everywhere and it’s killing us.

What? How could they possibly know that your city-dwelling relative’s Parkinson’s was caused by pesticides. That’s just ridiculous.

This is a very strange response. Parkinson’s has been linked to pesticides for decades. Conclusively. There have been genetic studies of patients and absolutely no familial link to Parkinson’s has been found in a very large portion of sick patients.

[Anonymous]

I’m also wondering if that poster thinks they don’t use pesticides in cities?? The amount of pesticides used to keep the rat, cockroach, bedbug population under control is pretty steep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else seeing this?

It's your age/stage. Just like at one point, many friends were getting married. Then many were having babies. Then many were getting divorced. Now they are older and many are getting sick.

FYI, next is parents getting older and having health problems and dying.

I have a hard time believing that it's the age/stage. I'm 38.

My friends sister with three young children suddenly has advance colon cancer.
Long time acquaintance found advanced breast cancer.
Another acquaintance is very sick, needs bone marrow transplant.
My younger sister and a friend both had abnormal cancerous pap smear results, told to come back regularly for testing

That seems like too much illness too close to be a normal part of life, improved diagnosis. And only listing cancer, not blood clots or emergency blood transfusions for platelets crashing. These people are all in their 30s, except one who is 44.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I spent the weekend recently with the head of a major type of oncology for a large NYC hospital. I asked about the rise in cancer and he said it's absolutely concerning but there is no compelling evidence they feel thus far that it can be attributed to chemical compounds in food or even in most cases alcohol in moderation. He said it's generally accepted that genetics are hugely (much more than is understood) important than anything else. He did say that exercise, lowering food intake overall, keeping weight down is very impactful. But mostly he said that blood tests that detect cancer will soon be extremely prevalent and likely the advent of those will precede our understanding of the minutae of causative factors.

Interesting that he dismissed alcohol. It seems like every article I read about cancer talks about alcohol being a risk factor for particular cancers, especially breast cancer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else seeing this?

It's your age/stage. Just like at one point, many friends were getting married. Then many were having babies. Then many were getting divorced. Now they are older and many are getting sick.

FYI, next is parents getting older and having health problems and dying.

I have a hard time believing that it's the age/stage. I'm 38.

My friends sister with three young children suddenly has advance colon cancer.
Long time acquaintance found advanced breast cancer.
Another acquaintance is very sick, needs bone marrow transplant.
My younger sister and a friend both had abnormal cancerous pap smear results, told to come back regularly for testing

That seems like too much illness too close to be a normal part of life, improved diagnosis. And only listing cancer, not blood clots or emergency blood transfusions for platelets crashing. These people are all in their 30s, except one who is 44.

I’m in my mid 40s.
In my late teens and early 20s I lost one friend to lymphoma/ 2 friends needed surgery for abnormal paps and one friend had a lumpectomy. It’s not so new

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spent the weekend recently with the head of a major type of oncology for a large NYC hospital. I asked about the rise in cancer and he said it's absolutely concerning but there is no compelling evidence they feel thus far that it can be attributed to chemical compounds in food or even in most cases alcohol in moderation. He said it's generally accepted that genetics are hugely (much more than is understood) important than anything else. He did say that exercise, lowering food intake overall, keeping weight down is very impactful. But mostly he said that blood tests that detect cancer will soon be extremely prevalent and likely the advent of those will precede our understanding of the minutae of causative factors.

Interesting that he dismissed alcohol. It seems like every article I read about cancer talks about alcohol being a risk factor for particular cancers, especially breast cancer.

I don’t think completely dismissed but I think the point was that lifestyle (within reason) is much much less impactful than genetics.
Echoed by my obgyn who when I asked for a test for cancer genes said I will give you one but you won’t test positive for any of them bc every single person who is positive for a gene has had or has a relative who has had early onset cancer and nearly everyone who he sees who has had early onset cancer is positive for a gene

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I spent the weekend recently with the head of a major type of oncology for a large NYC hospital. I asked about the rise in cancer and he said it's absolutely concerning but there is no compelling evidence they feel thus far that it can be attributed to chemical compounds in food or even in most cases alcohol in moderation. He said it's generally accepted that genetics are hugely (much more than is understood) important than anything else. He did say that exercise, lowering food intake overall, keeping weight down is very impactful. But mostly he said that blood tests that detect cancer will soon be extremely prevalent and likely the advent of those will precede our understanding of the minutae of causative factors.

Interesting that he dismissed alcohol. It seems like every article I read about cancer talks about alcohol being a risk factor for particular cancers, especially breast cancer.

I don’t think completely dismissed but I think the point was that lifestyle (within reason) is much much less impactful than genetics.
Echoed by my obgyn who when I asked for a test for cancer genes said I will give you one but you won’t test positive for any of them bc every single person who is positive for a gene has had or has a relative who has had early onset cancer and nearly everyone who he sees who has had early onset cancer is positive for a gene

Also he was right - I did the test and nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am 49 and have 7 close(ish) friends who have had cancer under 50. 6 were and have always been at healthy weights. One was probably overweight but definitely not obese.

That is exceedingly unusual - to have 7 close friends under 50 with cancer. That’s just not the norm.

I’m 54 and when I think of all my peers who have had cancer - it’s mostly friends of friends, etc…anecdotes I’ve heard over the years. I’m the only one in my actual circle who was diagnosed (although I’m over 50). Almost everyone in my chemo infusion room was well above 50.

I should not have said close. I added the ish but that was not enough. I just meant that these are not friends of friends of friends. More like good friend of an immediate family member or once good friend of mine. We are talking, good friend from college, DH's good friend from childhood, two good friends from high school, good friend from ES/MS, DD's good friend's mom, and another good friend from college with who I am still very close but she does not love nearby. I don't think that is unusual. So not people in my current circle (except one) but people who were all close to me at some point or are currently close to an immediate family member. Two more just came to me, too, with less close connections.

[Anonymous]

When I was a teen in the 80s, a few friends' parents died of cancer. To me they seemed old. Looking back they were only 42, 50, 48 etc, which seems young now that I've past that age. I've been at a couple of dinner parties where I'm the only one at the table without diagnosed cancer.

[Anonymous]

Saw this on Washington post a couple of eeeke ago about “unusual” cancers being on the rise since Covid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/06/covid-cancer-increase-link/

[Anonymous]

*weeks. Sorry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else seeing this?

It's your age/stage. Just like at one point, many friends were getting married. Then many were having babies. Then many were getting divorced. Now they are older and many are getting sick.

FYI, next is parents getting older and having health problems and dying.

I have a hard time believing that it's the age/stage. I'm 38.

My friends sister with three young children suddenly has advance colon cancer.
Long time acquaintance found advanced breast cancer.
Another acquaintance is very sick, needs bone marrow transplant.
My younger sister and a friend both had abnormal cancerous pap smear results, told to come back regularly for testing

That seems like too much illness too close to be a normal part of life, improved diagnosis. And only listing cancer, not blood clots or emergency blood transfusions for platelets crashing. These people are all in their 30s, except one who is 44.

And, as someone who has been where you are, I am telling you, it is the age/stage. Not sure why you are in denial about this when you're living it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else seeing this?

It's your age/stage. Just like at one point, many friends were getting married. Then many were having babies. Then many were getting divorced. Now they are older and many are getting sick.

FYI, next is parents getting older and having health problems and dying.

I have a hard time believing that it's the age/stage. I'm 38.

My friends sister with three young children suddenly has advance colon cancer.
Long time acquaintance found advanced breast cancer.
Another acquaintance is very sick, needs bone marrow transplant.
My younger sister and a friend both had abnormal cancerous pap smear results, told to come back regularly for testing

That seems like too much illness too close to be a normal part of life, improved diagnosis. And only listing cancer, not blood clots or emergency blood transfusions for platelets crashing. These people are all in their 30s, except one who is 44.

That is concerning but is consistent with reports of younger people having more aggressive cancers in the last few years.

[Anonymous]

I think white people are just more prone to cancer. Yes, skin of course, but others as well:

https://blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2022/01/which-countries-have-the-highest-and-lowest-cancer-rates/

[Anonymous]

Anyone else suspect it's microplastics?