What Is The Deal With Cancer?

[SHANEFROMGA]

Over The Past Few Years Cancer Has Been Popping Up In People All Around Me,
My Grandmother Had Breast Cancer, My Grandfather Pancreas Cancer, My Babysiters Husband Has A Rare Form Of Nonhodgkins Cancer, My Best Friends Mother Has Just Been Put In The Hospital With Lung Tumors And Brain Lesions, And Most Of All In Sept. Of Last Year My Mother Lost Her Battle With Lung Cancer. I Don't Get It What Is Making Cancer So Abundant These Days? Is It In The Water, Something We're Eating?

[Dougie Brootal]

cancer ruined my florida vacation!

[JackStraw]

Over The Past Few Years Cancer Has Been Popping Up In People All Around Me,
My Grandmother Had Breast Cancer, My Grandfather Pancreas Cancer, My Babysiters Husband Has A Rare Form Of Nonhodgkins Cancer, My Best Friends Mother Has Just Been Put In The Hospital With Lung Tumors And Brain Lesions, And Most Of All In Sept. Of Last Year My Mother Lost Her Battle With Lung Cancer. I Don't Get It What Is Making Cancer So Abundant These Days? Is It In The Water, Something We're Eating?

Depends what you are eating...

[Crispy123]

Cancer is a bitch. I don't understand it completely myself. I know what your saying though about hearing it more and more today. Is it happening more today than in the past? I dont know I think maybe our medical technology is just catching it now and recognizing it. They say thats your best shot at beating it. Catching it and treating it early.

My dad passed away 3 years ago from Liver cancer. He got Hepatitis in Vietnam, didn't ever treat it, drank like an Irish Catholic Vietnam Vet, and was diagnosed with Cancer and died in like 2 months. I was at his side through the deal until the end and it was the most painful thing to go through for him and to watch. I miss him but I hope he is doing alot better now then when I last saw him.

[Skellington]

Food preservatives, radiations, pollution, synthetic horomones, senditary lifestyles and genetics. Darwinism got cheated with medical science. When you continue to breed mutated gene carrying fleshbags, you create more. Mix those with other mutated gene carrying fleshbags, you create more, even hybrids with resistant genes. eventually you get a fleshbag that gets cancer at 22, a crapped out thyroid, diabetes, and barely functioning adrenals. I can't have kids, but i wouldn't if i could. Not passing this crap on. Eventually there will be a vaccine for cancer, AIDS, etc., Of course that will only give rise to superdiseases or the apocolypse.

Most of my family has died from various kinds of cancer or exploding hearts. It's rough, but do some research about nutrition. The more fresh stuff you eat, the better off you are (nothing frozen or in a can or last longer than a week or two). Glass of red wine a night makes a world of difference.

[Friday]

.... and even if you do eat well and live healthy, you may still be the lucky recipient of a cancer carrying genetic sequence. Just look at Lance Armstrong.

The good news... there are advances being made every day that can extend life and quality of life in many cases.

The bad news... it's still not enough to save the children and adults who contract cancer every day.

[JackStraw]

.... and even if you do eat well and live healthy, you may still be the lucky recipient of a cancer carrying genetic sequence. Just look at Lance Armstrong.

The good news... there are advances being made every day that can extend life and quality of life in many cases.

The bad news... it's still not enough to save the children and adults who contract cancer every day.

I wouldn't necessarily call Lance Armstrong a healthy person. Excessive excercise is almost worse than no excercise at all as it promotes the production of stress hormones.
Also the whole steriod thing...

[BalzacWB]

these fucking threads suck, I couldnt even read the Big A thread yesterday. My dad is undergoing radiation and chemo 5 days a week right now for a fucking brain tumor, this shit blows :(

[SHANEFROMGA]

these fucking threads suck, I couldnt even read the Big A thread yesterday. My dad is undergoing radiation and chemo 5 days a week right now for a fucking brain tumor, this shit blows :(

yes my friend this shit does indeed blow

[BalzacWB]

yes my friend this shit does indeed blow

btw I am sorry for your loss

[Disaster]

I have lost to many family and friends to Cancer. Espn Radio is doing its third annual Don't Give Up ESPYs V Foundation Auction Today. Click the link go give money and hope that we can help find a cure.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnradio/news/story?page=radio/vfoundation07

[Mike Teacher]

It's always been around, and can happen 100% naturally, a stray cosmic ray hits a certain bit of DNA which affects a certain gene and the 'stop growing/dividing signal' that cells contain gets screwed up.

That's about the sum of what we know. Cancer cells have screwed up 'stop growing/dividing signals'. It's sad. I mean we know a lot, but it comes down to being able to control the growth of cells, and in 2007, the body can control cell growth, but the MDs can't, so they use medieval technologies like posioning the body in hopes of killing the cancer cells before the poison kills you.

Why more cancer? The list of carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens et al would suggest the double edged sword of the revolution in Chemistry. A bazillion new substances that humans were never ever exposed to arrived yesterday in human time scales. Now we eat and drink and put stuff in our bodies that may well seem and test safe, but we can't test every combination, or amount, and we can only crudely simulate long-term effects, meaning no one knows what putting Food X or Drug Y in your body for 40 or 50 years really is.

A Manhatan Project style effort could well cure it, but that take money and audacity and America seems short in the first and almost absent in the second these days.

It does suck. Many here, me included have seen immediate and extended family get it.

And frankly, sadly, many here will get it, or have had to deal already.

Audacity, anyone?

[SHANEFROMGA]

btw I am sorry for your loss

thanks, i hope your dad pulls through his thing ok. alright enough touchy feely, i need to go post something mean some where.