Can you get cancer if you don’t have a lot of life stress?
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My mom was into things like olive oil before it was the norm. She always exercised and was lifting weights in the 90s, long before must older women were doing it. She had three healthy adult kids, all gainfully employed, all happily married with healthy grandkids. She had a happy marriage, great health insurance and was solidly middle class comfortable. There were no stressors in her life.
She still got cancer and died. |
Anonymous
| My kid got brain cancer at 18 months. It wasn’t due to stress!! |
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Most kinds of animals can get cancer. Even dinosaurs got it.
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Serbia and Kosovo were bombed with depleted uranium bombs. I know a ton of younger people who have cancer, had it, survived, or died. Most ate healthily and had average stressors, nothing unusual.
Is your question really if you should have been more caring and paid more attention? |
Anonymous
| It might be worth watching the documentary The Emperor of Maladies. I read that some 40% of US men will develop cancer over their lifetime. |
Anonymous
| The answer is NO |
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| Wut |
Anonymous
| There’s a terrible misconception in our society that if you do everything right you won’t be struck by tragedy, and that’s simply not true. I think this belief is in part what’s led to such a weak social safety net. |
Anonymous
| If they knew what caused cancer, they could prevent it / cure it faster. unfortunately it's one of those unknown things. My mother had breast cancer 3 x over a 16 year stretch, then nothing then neck and mouth cancer that killed her. No one could ever explain the "why" |
Anonymous
| I’m sorry for your loss, OP. I think it’s natural to wonder how or if things could have gone differently, no matter what the cause of death is. It is unsatisfying, but you may just have to accept that it was sheer bad luck. Grieving is really hard and I hope you have support. |
Anonymous
| It has nothing to do with stress and everything to do with genetics. My son's friend died at 11 from a brain tumor. |
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| Our cat had cancer and she had a really nice and stressless life. |
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I’m sorry you lost your father, OP. But even those who lead low-stress lives and are trauma-free get cancer.
That said, I have watched the Blue Zones on Netflix. It’s interesting to consider other ways of living, look at their healthy lifestyles, and lives that seem lower stress than the typically American lifestyle and wonder how the lives of certain people I know could have been different. |
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Many things that happen in our bodies are outside of our control. It's maddening because we want things to be within our control.
Getting cancer is unrelated to stress level. |