Huge rise in cancer in friends

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

It could be we find when people are younger rather than when is has grown to a larger size.

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Anonymous wrote:Microplastics?

Remember when our grandparents put lead paint in everything or when children were working in the mines, or with chemicals on the farm. . nah, it has nothing to do with microplastics or eating clean or any such nonsense. It has everything to do with better techniques to find it and more people receiving medical care in the first place.

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Anonymous wrote:Brain cancers - among very educated people and many others suddenly passing in 50s or 60s.

Cell phones

Well, if you make your tin-foil had it will ward off all the radio waves.

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Anonymous wrote:Mil: leukemia
Dad: multiple myeloma
Brother 1: colon cancer
Brother 2: leukemia
7 friends with breast cancer (I get texts… well add me to the list)
Best friend: diagnosed with cancer 2023, COVID, heart attack, died.

Wow that’s a lot. Environmental? Ethnic group with high genetic risk?

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Anonymous wrote:The increase in tattoos. I have no idea why so many people think forcing their lymphatic system to continually fight with badly regulated ink injected into sensitive skin cells is a good idea.

Ooh, this is a new one for me. I’m going to say it has as much of a likelihood to be linked to global warming or monetary globalization - those rates have also increased. Totally joking all these things are totally unrelated. I could say my dog poops more in the back yard now than 20 years ago and now I know more people who have gotten cancer - it must be my dog’s fault. This rationale make as much sense as tattoos, cell phones, and microplastics.

I didn’t have a dog 20 years ago . . .

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Anonymous wrote:
from https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/age, graph is incidence rate by age at diagnosis for all cancers

I think it's mostly because you're all getting older. The incidence rate for 50-54 is more than twice that from 40-44.

The risk dips at 85! We all can look forward to that!

honestly that is because only the most healthy people make it to 85. It’s similar to saying that all the prisoners returning to society from Gulag are strong and making a correlation that if you go to the Gulag you too will be strong - well, no, it’s just that you have to be strong to SURVIVE the gulag and many people die before they’re released.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mil: leukemia
Dad: multiple myeloma
Brother 1: colon cancer
Brother 2: leukemia
7 friends with breast cancer (I get texts… well add me to the list)
Best friend: diagnosed with cancer 2023, COVID, heart attack, died.

Wow that’s a lot. Environmental? Ethnic group with high genetic risk?

Yep that was my thought too! It must be a genetic predisposition, plus environment.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Brain cancers - among very educated people and many others suddenly passing in 50s or 60s.

Cell phones

+1

I’m suspicious of all the constant wireless stuff we’re exposed to all day long now from very young ages, no matter what experts/google/research etc say, starting with incessant chromebook and smart board use in early elementary classrooms.

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You people need a statistics class.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2569116/#:~:text=“We%20found%20that%20cell%20phone,University%20Hospital%20in%20Örebro%2C%20Sweden.

Cell phones

Study from 2008 and has since been debunked as a simple google search would and prob did tell you

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Tobacco and alcohol

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mil: leukemia
Dad: multiple myeloma
Brother 1: colon cancer
Brother 2: leukemia
7 friends with breast cancer (I get texts… well add me to the list)
Best friend: diagnosed with cancer 2023, COVID, heart attack, died.

Wow that’s a lot. Environmental? Ethnic group with high genetic risk?

Can’t think of anything really.

All my friends with breast cancer grew up in Rockville/Bethesda and have good healthcare/education. Only 1 had BRACA gene. They don’t all live here now.

Though 1 had triples and that is definitely a reason

Colon cancer brother had serious lifestyle issues.

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Anonymous wrote:The increase in tattoos. I have no idea why so many people think forcing their lymphatic system to continually fight with badly regulated ink injected into sensitive skin cells is a good idea. [/quote

Not just tattoos, people are injecting silicone, botox and fillers into their skin. What could happen?

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Anonymous wrote:Mil: leukemia
Dad: multiple myeloma
Brother 1: colon cancer
Brother 2: leukemia
7 friends with breast cancer (I get texts… well add me to the list)
Best friend: diagnosed with cancer 2023, COVID, heart attack, died.

Oh my…I’m so sorry for all of your losses. How gutting!

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of colon cancer in mid-30s to early 40s. 4 cases in the last year.

This was me.

I kind of feel like there maybe needs to be a screening colonoscopy at 30.

Definitely for those with a family history—not just of colorectal cancer, but polyps too. Some people are a lot more prone to them than others. Ask your parents.