Huge rise in cancer in friends

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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/

Interestingly in #2 New Zealand in your link, the Maori cancer rates are much higher than the white rates.

The longer you live the more likely you are to get a diagnosis. The more screenings you do, the more likely you are to get a diagnosis.

[Anonymous]

Our air, food and water is full of poison. This is not a surprise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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/

Dude you think it’s bc fewer people in South Sudan have cancer or bc there’s virtually no medical care there and the average lifespan is 54!

This is reported cancer rates. Use your noggin 🙂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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/

Dude you think it’s bc fewer people in South Sudan have cancer or bc there’s virtually no medical care there and the average lifespan is 54!

This is reported cancer rates. Use your noggin 🙂

You should heed your own advice and use your noggin' - you only focused on the lowest. However, you overlooked the fact that not a single Asian county is on the top 10 list. Asian countries have some of the longest lifespan, plus they often have even MORE abundance of healthcare than most Western countries. For example, people in Japan and South Korea go to the doctor 10-14 times per year.

Sorry, but white people just seem to get cancer more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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/

Interestingly in #2 New Zealand in your link, the Maori cancer rates are much higher than the white rates.

The longer you live the more likely you are to get a diagnosis. The more screenings you do, the more likely you are to get a diagnosis.

The Maori have horrific rates of obesity and terrible lifestyle:

https://www.health.govt.nz/nz-health-statistics/health-statistics-and-data-sets/obesity-statistics

Actually, many Pacific Islanders have some of the worst obesity rates in the world. 9 out of the 10 most obese populations on Earth are people of the Pacific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hmmm. I wonder what it could be.

lol obvs the Covid vaccine right? /sarc

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have noticed this for many years well before COVID. I do not remember growing up knowing this many people in their 30s and '40s getting cancer. Yes I know people in their '30s getting cancer. I don't know if it's the area that we live in or if this is something seen across America but it absolutely is true that cancer in young people is very much on the rise.

[Anonymous]

There has been a rising trend over a number of years, but there are increasing reports of a sharp, above-trend pick-up in the last several years.

[Anonymous]

Just an anecdote, but 20 years ago I was diagnosed with oral cancer 20 years ago. I was 40 and my case was definitely unusual as oral cancer was typically found in people in their late 60s to 80s. My surgeon (an extremely prominent surgeon in the field of head and neck cancers) told me that he saw only a handful of cases under 50 every year. Last year I was again diagnosed with oral cancer (tongue and throat). He told me that now about 70% of the cases he sees are people under the age of 50. He sees hundreds per year. The difference now is that nearly all cases in people under 50 are HPV+ related. Maybe an increase in viruses and their mutations is causing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

But how can they conclusively determine it was the cause?

[Anonymous]

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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

38 is not a typical age/stage to be suffused with cancer. C’mon.

I think social media has enhanced the sense that “suddenly everyone has cancer.” Before social media, we did not have access to the medical diagnoses of friends/friends of friends/ friends of friends of friends/ random person whose profile we clicked on after they commented on a friend’s post, etc. We more often than not lost touch with the majority of our high school classmates or the people we worked with in our first job or our sorority sister’s fellow bridesmaids, etc. And then there are “influencers” who post about their various conditions. People post about all kinds of personal stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

38 is not a typical age/stage to be suffused with cancer. C’mon.

I think social media has enhanced the sense that “suddenly everyone has cancer.” Before social media, we did not have access to the medical diagnoses of friends/friends of friends/ friends of friends of friends/ random person whose profile we clicked on after they commented on a friend’s post, etc. We more often than not lost touch with the majority of our high school classmates or the people we worked with in our first job or our sorority sister’s fellow bridesmaids, etc. And then there are “influencers” who post about their various conditions. People post about all kinds of personal stuff.

^* diagnosed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

38 is not a typical age/stage to be suffused with cancer. C’mon.

I think social media has enhanced the sense that “suddenly everyone has cancer.” Before social media, we did not have access to the medical diagnoses of friends/friends of friends/ friends of friends of friends/ random person whose profile we clicked on after they commented on a friend’s post, etc. We more often than not lost touch with the majority of our high school classmates or the people we worked with in our first job or our sorority sister’s fellow bridesmaids, etc. And then there are “influencers” who post about their various conditions. People post about all kinds of personal stuff.

Social media has been around for years. It wouldn't be the reason for the sharp increase in reports of aggressive cancer in younger people over the last several years.

[Anonymous]

My parents had a large network of friends and relatives and from church. I can only recall a few women who developed breast cancer in their 40s-50s and one uncle with liver cancer (from exposure to chemicals at work). Most lived well into their 80s and 90s (some still alive). Several we stayed in touch with developed cancer in their 70s including my mom.

[Anonymous]

Because hardly anyone from younger generations exercises anymore. They're massively obese and have tons of vitamin D deficiency. They eat like garbage and too often go out to restaurants all the time.

If you love sedentary lifestyles with terrible diet you die. It's really that simple.