Why is cancer so common now

[KingKitty]

I know 4 people all under 45 who died of cancer within the past three years. It's so so so so sad. They are just so so so young. I am just after hearing of another person with cancer all over her body.

.Why is cancer so common now and why is it taking people even young people?

It's so scary.

I honestly don’t know.

I have known far too many suffer from and die with cancer in their 30s. Cervical and bowel being the most common cancer.

My good friend was stage 4 at diagnosis. It spread from his bowel to his peritoneum and liver. He was 35.
Another lived for 3 weeks after his testicular cancer diagnosis. He was 31.
Thankfully my friend is still here after her cervical cancer treatment.
I could talk about many, many more which is heartbreaking.

I honestly think it's the chemicals we eat all the diet, sugar free pumped with artificial sweetners kind of stuff but who knows. I'm trying to not eat as much of these products anyway!

I have thought this also. I'm not saying it it, but the thought has crossed my mind. I also make a real effort to avoid these foods too.

Chernobyl, probably.

Pollution
Poor Food
Plastics

ive wondered the is a lot, I got cancer last year at 30. Lots of microplastics and various toxins these days I guess

I don't know why. I got breast cancer and a 5cm lump appeared overnight in 2021 and no risk factors or family history.

I don't have sweeteners or diet products so not that. Most people in chemo were much older and the ones around my age didn't seem anything that obvious. Possibly stress but odd. Could be chemicals but oncologist thought not, she said it was a hormone based cancer and would have hormone cause. Hadn't taken hrt, didn't drink. Normal BMI.

I don’t think it’s more common, I just think we’re so much better at identifying it. It’s always been here, people might have died of it, but not knowing it was cancer.

I think this too.

When I look back at my diet growing up in the 80s/90s I can’t believe what we ate.

Covid vaccines

Less people die of infectious and water borne diseases
so they die of something else.
Less people die before the age of 5
so they die of something else
Less women die in childbirth
so they die of something else

And what did you blame before covid vaccines? 5G? Little green men?

I remember when cancer charities first started popping up, the tagline was 1 in 3 will get cancer. Now, it's 1 in 2.

I suspect our modern lifestyles, too many chemicals in our diet and hygiene products etc. not enough completely natural produce. It's impossible to avoid bad chemicals. I've recently been diagnosed as allergic to certain chemicals as a result of contact testing. Some of the chemicals are in the very products prescribed to treat the issues which sent me for testing. They're also in cleaning product, hygiene products and exhaust fumes. So theoretically I can expect an allergic reaction from spending time outside in busy towns and cities. Luckily they're not life threatening but they are bloody inconvenient.

When I'm feeling particularly conspiracy theory minded, I wonder whether some of it is from the effects of electricity pylons, WiFi and mobile signals.

Look up Dr Malone inventor of mRNA tech. Look up Dr Aseem Malhotra as well.

I think in large part it's because we don't die of other things young so much.

My great-grandmother had 16 children. 11 of them died before her, 9 of them before they hit their teens. 5 of them from measles. She wasn't unusual.

I have 6 children. All 6 - even the one who the a life limiting illness that will mean she dies young - are in their teens.

It’s not conspiracy minded to question things, ask questions and look for answers when we know something is very very wrong. 1 in 2 should not be getting cancer. There are reasons and none of us know whether it’s vaccines, diet, pollution, 5g, stress, modern living. Personally I think it’s a combination of all of those factors and much more:

1 in 2 should not be getting cancer.
Why not ?
Cancer is normal cell division carried to extremes.
People used to die before it took effect.
Chances are Cancer rates are little changed in history

A few reasons.
Diet. UPFs and sugar has a lot to answer for.
Plastics. Microplastics are everywhere inside us now.
Pollution. We are exposed to so many carcinogens just existing.
Lifestyle. We are so much more sedentary and generally unfit than ever before.
Improved overall health. As humans we aren't dying from things like accidents, childbirth, cholera etc anymore so we're more likely to die from illnesses.

Agree with @ToBeOrNotToBee, I feel particularly all the chemicals we are constantly ingesting is causing increased cancer rates.
there’s are literally chemicals in everything we eat, touch and put in our bodies from obvious food types to deodorant cans to sanitary towels to toothpaste. It’s everywhere and unavoidable a lot of the time.

I think it's a number of different things. We are definitely more unfit as a nation. There is more awareness and people know more people, there are support groups etc so you can reach out to people going through the same things as you all over the world. People are living longer so people who would have died having accidents working in a factory are now dying later of cancer. I also think that in the last 10 years or so there have been a lot of people with cancer funding out later because of increased waiting lists. I hear so many stories about people who have been diagnosed with cancer and then having to wait weeks for treatment. Also people waiting ages for scans etc.

It may be “normal” in that sense, but only in older people. Healthy adults in their 30s and 40s who are otherwise fit and healthy? That’s what’s been rising and that’s what we need answers to.

UPFs full of stuff we shouldn’t be eating, vaccines, microplastics, stress, pollution, mobile phones on our person at all times, WiFi, sleep deprivation and Chernobyl combo.

Our bodies weren’t built for any of it.

I found this article interesting OP.

https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2023/01/24/early-onset-cancer-why-are-more-young-adults-being-diagnosed/

I don't think this would be a primary reason. In the UK 1 in 2 will get cancer, in Sweden, who was far worse affected as the winds were blowing north that day, it's 1 in 3 people.

I think the obesity crisis is definitely one major factor as that raises the risk of developing at least 13 types of cancers. I'm sure UPFs has a lot to do with both cancer and the obesity crisis.

1. Cancer isn't necessarily more common but the massively increased rate of communication means you simply hear about it more often. 50 years ago you natrually lose touch with people. These days, we stay in contact with almost every single person we've ever met, multiply that by everyone so obviously you find out about tragic health news more common.

2. Cancer is also a specific thing people talk about. It's sad and shocking so usually the first thing people selectively tell others.

3. The actual rise in numbers are mostly in very old people due to increased life spans. Look at graphs for cancer diagnosis in people in their 80s and 90s.

4. The internet also made it much easier for people to find out about celebrities or famous people with cancer. That makes it feel more omnipresent but has zero statistical relevance. Half a century ago, famous people could easily get treatment discreetly or keep their diagnosis secret.

5. Better medical technology means many cases of cancer are caught at a stage where it can be diagnosable. Many decades ago or in countries with very poor healthcare, cancer may only be found when it starts causing fatal complications and the cause of death gets written up as something else. Or people never find out the underlying cause.

6. Advanced medicine also helps many people live longer to experience cancer recurrence or secondary cancer caused by treatment of the first. Decades ago, babies born with underlying conditions may not have survived for long and you never hear of those cases. Nowadays, many more children are surviving childhood cancer but which still increases their overall risk as adults.

All explanations that have nothing to do with conspiracy theories.

The only reasonable correlation to increased rates of cancer would be obesity. People are fatter right now what any point in history so that could account for a small number of extra cases.