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In reply to the discussion: Most cancer types 'just bad luck' [View all]appalachiablue
(41,204 posts)4. I wonder if asthma, add, colitis, alzheimer's and autism are just bad luck?
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Recent studies have shown a somewhat shocking correlation between cancer rates ...
JEFF9K
Jan 2015
#34
So many things I am sensitive to years later I will see an article saying it is linked
lunasun
Jan 2015
#7
I wonder if asthma, add, colitis, alzheimer's and autism are just bad luck?
appalachiablue
Jan 2015
#4
So you explain it by a vast network of scientists shilling for industries and making false reports..
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#26
Cancer was not far more rare, per capita, 100 years ago than today, some types were, but there are reasons.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#14
That *median* life expectancy was due largely to child and infant mortality
CrawlingChaos
Jan 2015
#40
as a premenopausal BC survivor who might have had more kids, I've read a lot about this too
zazen
Jan 2015
#51
And how many more carcinogens, pathogens, and polluted air & lakes are there now vs. ancient greece?
Elmer S. E. Dump
Jan 2015
#24
Not to mention smoking rates, obesity, no exercise, toxins, living longer, sun exposure, etc.
Fred Sanders
Jan 2015
#27
The problem with anecdotes is that you can't set up controls for a sample size of one.
evirus
Jan 2015
#19
Um, It DIDN'T happen. Those are far from the only carcinogens in existance but
GreatGazoo
Jan 2015
#38
You're saying, if I understand you correctly, that the body evolved a separate system to fight
GreatGazoo
Jan 2015
#41
Does this mean doctors will quit trying to act like cancer is some moral failing on our parts?
Jamastiene
Jan 2015
#58