How early can Cancer strike?
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Originally Posted by birdgirl73
I'm not sure people are so much born with cancer as much as many are born with a genetic propensity toward it developing later in life. Most everyone's born with normal cells, and cancer happens when normal cells in various places in the body alter their behavior and structure and begin growing at especially fast rates. Genes play a role in many cancers. Viruses in many others. And environmental and lifestyle factors (like smoking) play a role in many more.
Do a Google on lung cancer and read all about it. Its early symptoms are often hard to recognize, which is why it's so deadly because it gets a head start before it's finally treated. Keep trying to quit smoking till you succeed! Lung cancer is awful, and so is emphysema. Both of those diseases are completely preventable if people don't start--or quickly quit--smoking.
My wife died of breast cancer in 1989. becareful and try to do your best to minimize the chances.
dai*ma:stoned: sfca
How early can Cancer strike?
How early can Cancer strike?
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Originally Posted by daima
My wife died of breast cancer in 1989. becareful and try to do your best to minimize the chances.
dai*ma:stoned: sfca
I'm so sorry for your loss, Daima. That's so heartbreaking. Did she have the aggressive, inflammatory kind and carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes in her family? I wish to goodness we could eradicate that disease. It's insidious. Judy, my long-time administrative assistant at my job, died of the very same disease a year and a half ago. My sister, as you may know, is currently nearing the end stage of ovarian cancer. We think her cancer was probably helped by the fact that she took two rounds of powerful fertility drugs 15 or so years ago when she was trying to get pregnant.
I work as hard as I can at preventing all kinds of cancer, breast among them. I keep my weight normal (it's slightly below normal at the moment), exercise, eat right, don't smoke cigs, have regular manual exams, get my mammograms, never have taken fertility drugs, and don't plan to take supplementary hormones of any kind in another six or eight years when the hot flashes begin. I've also experienced pregnancy and lactation, which helps cut women's breast and ovarian cancer risks signficantly, too.
The thing that'll give it to me, if anything does, is either the increasing risk that comes with age or the amount of stress I'm under, but I try my best to manage the stress with exercise. Too bad having only medium-sized unaugmented breasts doesn't cut the risk because I'd have that covered, too, if it did! Even with all my efforts, I know cancer of some type could still nail me to the wall. That's why it's so hateful. It gets plenty of healthy, careful people, too. (And yes, Cananbis, even babies sometimes get particular types of cancers, too. In rare cases, they're even born with malignant tumors.)
Much love and peace to you, Daima, for having been through that experience. It's hard to watch a loved one go through that, isn't it?
How early can Cancer strike?
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Originally Posted by smokinbass
funy thing about cigs...
ever notice u put a joint in an ashtray and it goes out but u put a cig down and it burns to the filter? there is what could best be called gunpowder in the paper. some of the most common brands of commercial cigs contain up to 117 added chemicals, many would never be allowed in any food product, but still injested when u smoke. if u really enjoy tobacco, smoke some pure tobacco that is rolled in pure rice paper.... its still not the best thing for u, but that other sh*t will kill u.
SB
Cigarettes contain an agent in them that keep them burning, idk if it is, but it probably could be a small amount of gunpowder
How early can Cancer strike?
I prefere to roll my own cigs, it is still a nasty vice I should quit tho
How early can Cancer strike?
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Originally Posted by birdgirl73
I'm so sorry for your loss, Daima. That's so heartbreaking. Did she have the aggressive, inflammatory kind and carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes in her family? I wish to goodness we could eradicate that disease. It's insidious. Judy, my long-time administrative assistant at my job, died of the very same disease a year and a half ago. My sister, as you may know, is currently nearing the end stage of ovarian cancer. We think her cancer was probably helped by the fact that she took two rounds of powerful fertility drugs 15 or so years ago when she was trying to get pregnant.
I work as hard as I can at preventing all kinds of cancer, breast among them. I keep my weight normal (it's slightly below normal at the moment), exercise, eat right, don't smoke cigs, have regular manual exams, get my mammograms, never have taken fertility drugs, and don't plan to take supplementary hormones of any kind in another six or eight years when the hot flashes begin. I've also experienced pregnancy and lactation, which helps cut women's breast and ovarian cancer risks signficantly, too.
The thing that'll give it to me, if anything does, is either the increasing risk that comes with age or the amount of stress I'm under, but I try my best to manage the stress with exercise. Too bad having only medium-sized unaugmented breasts doesn't cut the risk because I'd have that covered, too, if it did! Even with all my efforts, I know cancer of some type could still nail me to the wall. That's why it's so hateful. It gets plenty of healthy, careful people, too. (And yes, Cananbis, even babies sometimes get particular types of cancers, too. In rare cases, they're even born with malignant tumors.)
Much love and peace to you, Daima, for having been through that experience. It's hard to watch a loved one go through that, isn't it?
After all of these years i still cry on a daily basis, especially when i look at my grandkids. Dao(her name) was everything to me. She survived the american led bombing of her homeland(Vietnam), only to die 14 years later from a fucking tumor. It just dont seem fair.
She took her own death better than i ever could. She seemed to of welcomed it.
The hardest thing i have ever done in my life was to watch my wife die.
Dao, means, Beautiful Flower, in Vietnamese. And a beautiful flower she was.
dai*ma:(
How early can Cancer strike?
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Originally Posted by birdgirl73
I'm so sorry for your loss, Daima. That's so heartbreaking. Did she have the aggressive, inflammatory kind and carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes in her family? I wish to goodness we could eradicate that disease. It's insidious. Judy, my long-time administrative assistant at my job, died of the very same disease a year and a half ago. My sister, as you may know, is currently nearing the end stage of ovarian cancer. We think her cancer was probably helped by the fact that she took two rounds of powerful fertility drugs 15 or so years ago when she was trying to get pregnant.
I work as hard as I can at preventing all kinds of cancer, breast among them. I keep my weight normal (it's slightly below normal at the moment), exercise, eat right, don't smoke cigs, have regular manual exams, get my mammograms, never have taken fertility drugs, and don't plan to take supplementary hormones of any kind in another six or eight years when the hot flashes begin. I've also experienced pregnancy and lactation, which helps cut women's breast and ovarian cancer risks signficantly, too.
The thing that'll give it to me, if anything does, is either the increasing risk that comes with age or the amount of stress I'm under, but I try my best to manage the stress with exercise. Too bad having only medium-sized unaugmented breasts doesn't cut the risk because I'd have that covered, too, if it did! Even with all my efforts, I know cancer of some type could still nail me to the wall. That's why it's so hateful. It gets plenty of healthy, careful people, too. (And yes, Cananbis, even babies sometimes get particular types of cancers, too. In rare cases, they're even born with malignant tumors.)
Much love and peace to you, Daima, for having been through that experience. It's hard to watch a loved one go through that, isn't it?
You and me
sittin' in the back of
my memory
like a honey bee
buzzin' around a glass
of sweet Chabli
Radios on
windows rolled up
and my minds rolled down
headlights shining like silver moons
rolling on the ground
It;s going to be a long Monday
sittin all alone on a mountain by
a river that has no end
i'm stuck like the tick of a clock
thats come unwound
again
and again.:(
How early can Cancer strike?
Ooooh, that made me tear up! But even the tiniest little things have that effect on me right now.
Bless your heart. Bless all our hearts who've lost or are losing loved ones. It's the worst thing I've ever experienced. And in my particular case, I'd switch places in a heartbeat with my sister if it meant she could return to health and be like she used to be.
My heart goes out to you, Daima. When this journey ends here, I may have to come out to California simply so we can give each other a hug and cry together for a while.
How early can Cancer strike?
P.S. I hope you won't mind, but I've added Dao to my prettiest cat's name in your wife's honor. I love that name.
How early can Cancer strike?
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Originally Posted by birdgirl73
Ooooh, that made me tear up! But even the tiniest little things have that effect on me right now.
Bless your heart. Bless all our hearts who've lost or are losing loved ones. It's the worst thing I've ever experienced. And in my particular case, I'd switch places in a heartbeat with my sister if it meant she could return to health and be like she used to be.
My heart goes out to you, Daima. When this journey ends here, I may have to come out to California simply so we can give each other a hug and cry together for a while.
I look forward to our meeting. If you can tolerate a long haired 50 year old pot smokin hippie full of tears, and very over-protective of those i care about, and those i havent even met.., then i'm your guy.:thumbsup:
dai*ma:stoned: sfca
