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.

Interested to know from what angle you can’t believe what you ate?

My friend worked In breast cancer studies and she said to an extent it’s actually a good thing more and more people are being diagnosed (including younger people)

let me explain
increased screening (including for younger people and increased awarensss of the signs of cancers in young people)
decreased mortality from things that would’ve previously killed people (heart disease, stroke etc)
increased life expectancy

however the prevalence is increased and that has to be do with lifestyle (increased processed foods, smoking, sedentary lifestyles etc)

Sweeteners don’t give you cancer and aren’t linked to cancer in humans

Because the sky is full of pollution, our foods are full of shite and we’re surrounded by plastics and dodgy metals and chemicals and sprays and god knows what else……..

People used to die of heart attacks and infectious diseases like pneumonia or flu.

there’s been public health work for decades on preventing heart attacks - exercising, eating healthily etc.

there’s vaccines etc for flu and pneumonia and they don’t kill as many as they used to,

but everyone dies. The next big push is on cancers.

they already have vaccines for some cancers.
the anti smoking stuff will reduce lung cancer.

Fewer of us are dying of opportunistic infection, epidemic disease, industrial/work related diseases and accidents, pregnancy and childbirth related illnesses, starvation, and TB and the upshot of that is that we are living longer. That sets us up to die of other things, including cancer, but also dementia conditions, heart disease and neurological conditions - things that at one time we just didn't live long enough to worry about. Also, diagnostic tools have improved. Back in the 1990s, I worked with a woman whose husband died of what was probably cancer, but he never received a firm diagnosis. It was really sad as he was quite young (only mid to late 50s) and had it happened now, his chances of making old bones would probably be much better, depending on where the cancer was. That said, the causes of disease are complex and our environments, lifestyles, genes and other things play a part too and always have.

Don't forget bigfoot. He's the ringleader

Mark lintern's the cancer revolution has some interesting theory on this. It looks at the role of microorganisms in the development of cancer suggesting that they evolve through generations to adapt combined with additional toxin
exposure that weaken our ability to fight them. www.cellsuppression.com/

I agree. There are many things in life people believe are more common, but they're not necessarily. Diagnostics and testing have improved so much in my lifetime.

Yes unfortunately it seems cancer can be more aggressive when someone young has it.

I do everything I can to keep myself in good shape and good health, but I've known some top-of-their-game clean living athletes die quickly of cancer in their early 40s over the last few years.

It's just so scary.

My 55 yo sister has just been diagnosed with a pelvic cancer. Fast growing and symptomless. She’s always lived cleanly and exercised. My ex’s first wife died at 27 from cancer, fit, never drank or ate fast food. It’s random.

Better detection and diagnosis @KingKitty

Improvement in diagnosis is probably one of the biggest factors.
25 years ago I would see people who had been diagnosed due to being critically unwell and with weeks/days to live. Now it tends to be, concerning symptoms, 2 week referral and years/months/weeks to live, with massively improved treatments, depending on the location of the cancer. The majority of people I care for at end of life with a cancer diagnosis are in their 70's/80's.
Why are we seeing an increase in younger cases ? Genetics, lifestyle and pollution ? Car related pollution will probably end up being found to be a factor, especially when you consider that the levels of pollution are greater inside a car than outside ?

I read recently that the use of products especially cosmetics for women and just how scented so much stuff is now being researched as a contributing factor.

Whole grains are important for bowel health. Some people avoid them as they are low carbing
www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/diet-and-cancer/wholegrains-fibre-and-cancer-risk#:~:text=Having%20a%20healthy%20balanced%20diet,high%20in%20wholegrains%20and%20fibre.

I agree with this and there's also the fact that some people my parents' generation and older kept their diagnosis secret. Cancer was only talked about in hushed tones, as though it was something to be ashamed of. My mum wouldn't let me tell anyone except immediate family that she had cancer.
People were thought to have died of old age or something vague if they were younger, and it was in fact cancer.

Yeah, this. And also, it's talked about a lot more, with social media etc. If someone has it, you hear about it every day. It's normal to have more illness in people you know as you get older. People live longer these days, but with that comes downsides such as cancer, dementia, heart problems etc etc.

It's the same as autism/ADHD etc. It was always there, we just talk about it more now.

And war etc, we think things are bad now, they always were. It's just that we were largely blissfully ignorant for the mostpart.

It isn’t more common. It’s just diagnosed more easily and talked about more publicly. People have always died of cancer, including at a young age, but it was often not diagnosed as cancer or if it was, it wasn’t talked about. In my grandparents’ day, the word ‘cancer’ wasn’t even considered a polite word to say in public. The film Rebecca, made in the 1930s, was criticised for having the word cancer in the script.

As for the idea that we’re exposed to more cancer causing chemicals these days - that probably isn’t true either. People were exposed to loads of carcinogens in, eg, Victorian times - awful working conditions using dangerous chemicals, unregulated medicines and cosmetics, heavy smoking and snuff taking, horrific air quality, adulterated foods etc.

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

That’s because average lifespans have increased massively over the decades. And, while some younger people (ie under 60) do develop cancerous diseases, the most common forms of cancer (breast, lung, bowel, prostate etc) are primarily diseases of older people.

I think it’s chemicals we eat, vaccines we rushed to take for Covid ( still think those have made me more ill, I’ve had quite a few boosters) more testing for cancer and then the resultant chemo drugs.

Im pretty sure the chemo drugs kill off some people newly diagnosed with cancer.

Regardless it’s a dreadful horrible nasty thing

And yes I certainly believe there’s all sorts of nasties in our environment that can increase the risk of developing it

OFGS

The cancer rates were increasing long before anyone had even heard of Covid 19.

From the angle of a child who had no say in what she was given to eat.

No thanks chick. I'm happy to have vaccines. You go off on your conspiracy journey on your own.

Less people die from heart attacks, infections or anaphylactic reactions than did even 20 years ago.
COVID caused premature deaths of a large number of diabetic, overweight and elderly people only 4/5 years ago.
This means that at the moment cancer deaths are likely to be disproportionally frequent.