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Post by ForumUser2 on Feb 6, 2024 21:55:46 GMT 1
People might not be huge royalty fans but I could not imagine anyone would wish anyone with cancer anything but good wishes. I was reading last night 50% of Brits get cancer. An interesting point. In recent years.....viewing UK television.........seeing Cancer charity ads......at first mentioning that one in four will get cancer, it increased to one in three, and recently one in two will get it. When I was young the big C was hardly ever mentioned. Isn't it about time someone worked out what it is in our "modern" environment that is working to kill us off? We are certainly exposed to more plastics than ever before, and unpronounceable chemicals in our food. If it is one of these two we are certainly doomed. Reducing these will make everything more expensive and reduce the profits for the holy "shareholders". Several factors to explain the apparent increase in prevalence. Mainly it's because people are living longer. The biggest risk factor for cancer is age. Cancer as a term is not well-defined. For example breast, colon, pancreatic etc are universally recognised as cancer. However, if we take basal cell carcinoma as an example, here you have a carcinoma (an epithelial cancer) with an almost zero mortality rate yet a very high incidence on the 70+ age group. Many BCCs simply didn't get attention 50 years ago. And many who have had a BCC removed might not even consider themselves to have had cancer. On the other hand, some cancers are now rarely seen. When young boys were sent up chimneys in Victoria times they suffered a high incidence of scrotal cancer. So what I'm saying is this 1 in 4, 1 in 3 or whatever mean little without having the same base-line definition. |
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Post by jackie on Feb 7, 2024 11:07:28 GMT 1
People might not be huge royalty fans but I could not imagine anyone would wish anyone with cancer anything but good wishes. I was reading last night 50% of Brits get cancer. An interesting point. In recent years.....viewing UK television.........seeing Cancer charity ads......at first mentioning that one in four will get cancer, it increased to one in three, and recently one in two will get it. When I was young the big C was hardly ever mentioned. Isn't it about time someone worked out what it is in our "modern" environment that is working to kill us off? We are certainly exposed to more plastics than ever before, and unpronounceable chemicals in our food. If it is one of these two we are certainly doomed. Reducing these will make everything more expensive and reduce the profits for the holy "shareholders". It was not really talked about years ago, sort of kept under wraps with obituaries saying things like ‘after a long illness, bravely fought’. It was a certain death sentence then but is now a lot more treatable, esp if it gets picked up early. |
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Post by Nifty on Feb 7, 2024 11:23:58 GMT 1
Many years ago diagnosis was less certain and cause of death not so exactly defined or recorded with such great precision.
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Post by Aardvark on Feb 7, 2024 11:57:59 GMT 1
I just can't get my head around hearing about children under 10 are now being diagnosed with cancer.
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Post by Nifty on Feb 7, 2024 12:19:37 GMT 1
I have heard that there is a theory that many people have an innate predisposition to develop cancer from a root cause.
What with modern techniques and the proliferation of hitherto non existent antigens due to the synthesis of certain products it is possible that cancer is evolving into new forms.
The paradox is that it could save humanity from overpopulation.
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Post by cernunnos on Feb 7, 2024 13:31:32 GMT 1
Polluted environment
Air, water and food.
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Post by mangetout on Feb 7, 2024 16:23:33 GMT 1
I hope someone is keeping an eye on Prince William. I've just watched a clip of him giving out honours and his rapid blinking suggests he's under considerable stress. And no wonder.
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Post by Aardvark on Feb 7, 2024 17:33:20 GMT 1
I have heard that there is a theory that many people have an innate predisposition to develop cancer from a root cause. What with modern techniques and the proliferation of hitherto non existent antigens due to the synthesis of certain products it is possible that cancer is evolving into new forms. The paradox is that it could save humanity from overpopulation. Wars are working in that direction. |
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Post by ForumUser2 on Feb 7, 2024 17:58:12 GMT 1
I just can't get my head around hearing about children under 10 are now being diagnosed with cancer. It's always been around but, as you say, there is much more publicity. When I qualified, 40 years ago, most childhood leukaemias responded poorly to treatment yet many forms are now very treatable. I wonder if that is not just better treatments (and they are way better) but also early intervention? Taking the stigma out of cancer is the first step in getting people to share their symptoms and get diagnosed early. Sadly, not all cancer survival rates have improved (although most have). Again, when I qualified the 5 year survival rate for pancreatic cancer was 5%. I believe it's now 6%. |
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Post by gigi on Feb 7, 2024 18:45:39 GMT 1
I really hope King Charles doesn’t have pancreatic cancer.
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Post by ForumUser2 on Feb 7, 2024 20:18:01 GMT 1
I really hope King Charles doesn’t have pancreatic cancer. Ditto that comment. I would say, though, that normally pancreatic cancer produces such slight signs and symptoms that it is often far advanced before diagnosis. Early detection - probably the single most important factor towards a good prognosis. |
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