Re: Cancer....

Posted by fixerupper on August 01, 2017 at 11:36:30 from (100.42.94.143):

In Reply to: Cancer.... posted by Greg1959 on July 31, 2017 at 11:15:24:

Neither Marilyn or I have had cancer but I do sympathize with those of you who do. We both have cancer in our family background, especially Marilyn's. My mother died from breast cancer in 1971 and that is the only case of cancer in my family that I know of. Marilyn's mother died from renal cancer, her older brother died from melanoma, another brother is a rare pancreatic cancer survivor, and for the last three years Marilyn and I have been helping her younger sister get through breast cancer surgeries and treatments.

I have tried to link these cases to one particular cause but so far nothing comes up except for the familial commonalities. My dad's side of the family had no cancer history. My mother's side has one, my mother, who passed away from breast cancer . She contracted polio in 1951 and was hospitalized for six months, leaving her partially crippled, then the cancer came 20 years later. A long time ago I read a study that claimed polio victims are more prone to cancer. I don't know if that is true or not. Mom ate food from our organic garden and ate home raised meat that was probably organic in the 50's, 60's and early 70's. Marilyn's mother mostly ate from the garden and enjoyed farm raised meat and milk too. She gave birth to 15 children but I don't think that had anything to do with it. She never drank alcohol and never smoked nor was she ever around second hand smoke. Marilyn's brother, the pancreatic cancer survivor, did work around some chemicals but I'm not sure of what type or how much. Her brother who had melanoma was a red headed farm boy who worked in the sun. I read another study that claimed boys and young men who are exposed to the sun during their very young years are more prone to melanoma. True or not? I don't know. Marilyn's sister who is battling breast cancer with two reoccurrences never drank, smoked or was around much second hand smoke.

To sum it up, I really don't know what to blame for the cancer epidemic. Is it in the air we breathe, is the polluted air from china coming over us? It seems like brain cancer is common in this area. Coincidence or not? A local man I knew claimed when he was in the air force they dumped old chemicals out of planes above northwest Iowa, where I live. I can only go by his word on whether it is true or not.

I'm a fair skinned Scandinavian have been in the sun for 60+ years, have breathed welding smoke, worked with farm chemicals for at least 50 years, and I don't have cancer-yet. A local man I know who grew up and made a living in a smoky hazy welding shop is now suffering from lung cancer. Maybe he would have had lung cancer is he never breathed smoke in his life. How do we know? Just some rambling thoughts.

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