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 think aspartame has links to cancer.

Please, 5G and vaccines do not cause cancer. In fact the vaccine against cervical cancer is very effective.

There is a lot of weird misinformation in this thread. Cancer is typically caused by some sort of fault in DNA replication/repair. There are some things we absolutely know can cause this, such as exposure to UV rays. Same with smoking, which we know disrupts DNA. There are some things we are still researching, such as plastics. It's very hard to prove causation with a lot of things. Correlation does not mean causation. It might be that more people who owns pets happen to have cancer, but that does not mean pets are the cause. The research literature doesn't appear to link things like sweeteners to cancer.

We also have easy access to information so we hear more about cancer. People live longer so there is also just more time to get cancer.

It will also seem like there is more cancer due to modern healthcare and faster/more efficient diagnostics.

Vaccines are lifesaving medicine. They do not cause cancer. They do however stop you dying from horrible preventable illnesses.

It's fine to question things, but please research in the right places. Research is not listening to someone ranting on tiktok. Real research is a peer reviewed study with reliable, valid, and replicable results. If you truly want to examine the research, learn how to appraise qualitative and quantitative research literature and use an appropriate database to do so.

The 1 in 2 is not necessarily an issue. We all die of something, so getting cancer when you are old, although tough for individuals, is itself not a broader issue.
But the increase in cancer in young people is an issue. Bowel cancer has increased in young people. Bowel cancer has always been closely linked to not enough fibre in the diet. And anecdotally, constipation in young people seems to be far more common than I remember it being when I was young.

Did you take the pill? A root canal?

I think you know this poster means man-made/synthetic chemicals

Yes all chemicals can be toxic in high enough amounts (the dose makes the poison) but there is no doubt we are not supposed to ingest microplastics or breathe in synthetic fragrances or traffic pollution or drink aspartame or drink lots of alcohol or inhale nicotine etc etc. The list could go on.

I’m sure that’s what that poster meant - reducing exposure to things us humans are not designed to do.

Are we getting enough reparative sleep?

What’s a man-made/synthetic chemical?

Cos everything is made from elements. (Even elephants!)

Or could it be because while the vaccines prevent us getting ill from certain viruses; they also inhibit the bodies ability to fight them naturally, meaning our immune systems don’t get primed the way nature intended?

that's not how they work. other than ones that work like the smallpox vaccine, they typically provide the body with a "manual" on how to fight it so the body recognises it and knows how to react

There are far too many products approved with cancer-causing ingredients, beauty as well as food. A lot of hair dyes for example.

And all the cancer causing things like uv lights for nails.

"everyone does it" so it's okay, and the risks aren't talked about because ££££

There was a really interesting article I think in The Times fairly recently about this. Why are young people who are healthy getting cancer. I believe the rate is increasing at a faster rate in this demographic than any other. The answer is they don't know and scientists are collaborating to try and figure it out. They are not ruling anything out. I'll see it I can find a link, it was a real eye opener.

I guess genetics is a thing too? I know friends who have been diagnosed but nobody in my family, and as far back as everyone can remember, no cancer at all
Also no heart or lung problems. Just don’t ask about dementia

Yes and that is not the same as coming into contact with a wild strain and your immune system mounting a natural response. It’s been well studied that chicken pox for example primes the immune system and having caught it naturally lowers your risk of glioma by 21%.

Too many processed foods and additives, lifestyle choices, pollution and modern tech. Mobile phones/WiFi etc, all interfere with brain activity to some degree, so just think what all the masts must do over time. We are very slowly microwaving ourselves and that just can't be healthy. But they call it progress.

Could be to do with chemicals called safe and effective. I know more young people getting cancer now than ever before!

Poor diet, pollution, stress.

Scientists have proved that the human immune system is at its strongest when we eat 30 or more different fruit & veg a week.

In the past, people grew their own veg, ate whatever was in season, ate a far higher percentage veg because meat was much more expensive, ate more fruit. Veg were fresh, not stored in Tesco warehouse for six months.

Now many people eat frozen peas & sweetcorn, maybe a bit of salad and the garlic & onion in their take away curry.

Hardly surprising, with a depleted immune system we can't fight off the more serious diseases.

We have vaccines now to protect against measles and tetanus, smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough etc, the big killers of young people in the past, but there is no vaccine for many forms of cancer.

Medical science is getting there. We can protect against cervical cancer now, soon the NHS will dispense a preventative for some forms of breast cancer, but there's a long way to go.

Yes because exposure to chemicals such as water is the same as exposure to the likes of asbestos. Did you go to school?!

This has had an absolutely negligible effect on cancer rates - even in Ukraine.

I would say that cancer diagnoses are much higher because we have a better understanding of different cancers and their symptoms. Fewer people simply “waste away” and die, only for their families to discover they were “riddled with” some unknown cancer.
The population has expanded exponentially, ergo, so have diagnosis rates. Women “know” or interact with a much wider circle than they used to as well. People have always had cancer. We just know more about it and have better health promotion as well.

@Fraaances that’s not what recent research is showing.

My son was diagnosed with cancer last year just 3 months after his 8th birthday. If he had the same diagnosis in the 80's, his prognosis would've been incredibly poor. Thanks to cancer research, newer chemotherapy drugs since the 80's and trials such as immunotherapy, he has a 90% chance that he will stay in remission.

The chance of survival is so much higher now, social media makes it so easy for people to share their stories and meet others in the same position etc so it feels like it is common.

My Grandparents had cancer. My parents and IL’s have dementia. As do lots my friends and colleagues parents. Where I am it seems like there’s less cancer but much more dementia.

It can be aggressive though. My dad and his friend both died of it in their 60s/70s. The other men in my parents friendship group as far as I know haven't been tested. So agree it's possible they do have it but it'll never cause them any issues. I don't think there is increasing blood tests, more men are probably asking for them but I've heard they are often being refused, especially if they have no symptoms of it.

Unfortunately it runs in my family (grandfather died in only his 50s) but my brothers are not getting tested. Idk when I see statements like this it just makes me not know what to think because I'd hate for anyone to downplay cancer and not get treatment. It does still manage to kill 12,000 men a year despite all this "men die with it not of it" it's the reason we never took my dad's cancer seriously until suddenly it was stage IV and I still have huge guilt around that.

It’s due to better diagnoses and people living longer. Other infections that wound have killed people are now easily treatable.

Not sure which is worse. Old age isn’t for faint heated.