Cancer Strikes Again
- Thread starter WavMixer
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Damn.
OP
So they are right in the heart of the big fire. Trying to get ahold of them and see how they are.
Thomas Fire grows to 45k+ acres, forces thousands of evacuations
Thomas Fire grows to 45k+ acres, forces thousands of evacuations
bea
AmBASSador of the F Clef
Damn.
There seem certain critical ages in life when cancer takes away more people than usual.
Halt die Ohren steif!
syscokid
Ambassador of War & Peace
I hate cancer.
https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/...igures/2017/cancer-facts-and-figures-2017.pdf
"Cancer usually develops in older people; 87% of all cancers in the US are diagnosed in people 50 years of age or older."
" In the US, approximately 41 out of 100 men and 38 out of 100 women will develop cancer during their lifetime."
USA cancer facts link:
https://www.cancer.org/content/dam/...igures/2017/cancer-facts-and-figures-2017.pdf
"Cancer usually develops in older people; 87% of all cancers in the US are diagnosed in people 50 years of age or older."
" In the US, approximately 41 out of 100 men and 38 out of 100 women will develop cancer during their lifetime."
jtcnj
Ambassador of the Crossroad
Sorry to hear about them being in danger, on top of the health problems.
That brings up a thought:
I have heard or read it has been hard to quantify if or how much cancer rates in general have climbed in recent decades.
Not like say, you live 50 miles from Chernobyl, but in general.
Those stats are often misinterpreted or misrepresented to forward an agenda.
But enough of my conspiracy theories....
People have been living longer in part to other common earlier 20th century or prior diseases being contained or destroyed.
So, if you didnt die of tuberculosis earlier, you might live longer and finally develop cancer.
So while the reaper will come calling for all of us, the card he plays more often is cancer.
Die young, stay pretty?
Hope I die before I get old?
Better to burn out, than to fade away?
The 27 club thing?
I dont know,
"I couldn't quote you no dickens, shelley or keats
'Cause it's all been said before"
(credit Sir Rodney and Ronald David Wood)
So, if Wav's friend escaped the fire, he may succumb to cancer.
If he was killed in the fire, he would not be counted as dying of cancer.
Sorry again to hear of your friends troubles, and thank you for giving me pause to appreciate life, I try to do it every single day.
That brings up a thought:
I have heard or read it has been hard to quantify if or how much cancer rates in general have climbed in recent decades.
Not like say, you live 50 miles from Chernobyl, but in general.
Those stats are often misinterpreted or misrepresented to forward an agenda.
But enough of my conspiracy theories....
People have been living longer in part to other common earlier 20th century or prior diseases being contained or destroyed.
So, if you didnt die of tuberculosis earlier, you might live longer and finally develop cancer.
So while the reaper will come calling for all of us, the card he plays more often is cancer.
Die young, stay pretty?
Hope I die before I get old?
Better to burn out, than to fade away?
The 27 club thing?
I dont know,
"I couldn't quote you no dickens, shelley or keats
'Cause it's all been said before"
(credit Sir Rodney and Ronald David Wood)
So, if Wav's friend escaped the fire, he may succumb to cancer.
If he was killed in the fire, he would not be counted as dying of cancer.
Sorry again to hear of your friends troubles, and thank you for giving me pause to appreciate life, I try to do it every single day.
bea
AmBASSador of the F Clef
Mhmm, with 50 You aren't old, are You?
Anyway, around 50 a major change in the hormonal constitution occurs. In both genders, though more well pronounced in women. My impression is that in this stage of life - around 50 - people do more often that earlier and also short time later. And we are still young enough that the cancer can grow quickly.
And we are relatively often in stressful stages of our lives which weakens our immune system and thus allows cancer to develop.
Always keep in mind that our body permanently produces cancer cells. Many, not just a few ones. And our immune system is permanently busy with killing them, and it is actually impressively successful at this. But some kind of imbalance may be enough to let our own production of cancer cells win.
