Not sure if 46 is younger adult but it felt pretty damn young for prostate cancer.
- colorectal
- cervical
- pancreatic
- prostate
- kidney
- myeloma
I often wonder if Ultra-processed modern foods, and all these questionable ingredients are responsible for most of the increases in these cancers?
Lack of fiber is a big player in colon cancer apparently.
I don’t know what ultraprocessed foods you’re sticking in your cooch to get cervical cancer, but I’m guessing there’s not a lot of research on that.
Anything that damages the gut microbiome. Ultra-processed foods are one of many things. Antibiotics may be the biggest factor.
Or microplastics?
Or PFAS, Glyphosate …
PFSA… kinda?, glyphosate…maybe…? honestly we’ve done a ton of studies since glyphosate was first created in the 70s there really aren’t any known significant health risks. Personally I’d be more concerned about the environmental problems of herbicides running off and affecting the wider environment.
Isn’t there an effective vaccine for cervical?
My spouse just went through cervical cancer.
The vaccine that prevents it is the HPV vaccine.
However, it needs to be administered before the age of 14 for it to be effective for the rest of your life.
Apparently, 75% of the population has an HPV.
Sooooo… yeah.
It can be administered at anytime. It’s usually given at 14 because most people aren’t sexually active before then.
If you are older, it can still help. If you are a man without contact with HPV, you could become immune.
I could be wrong, but I got it at 30 even after having partners.
It wasn’t required for millennial men to get the vaccine. It’s only recently they started pushing for everyone to get it.
There was also a lot of scare-mongering when it was introduced. My parents’ church said that HPV was punishment from god for casual sex, and the vaccine would guarantee I’d go to hell, so they didn’t let me get it.
As I write this, I’m in a hospital bed recovering from having my sigmoid colon and all the associated lymph nodes, removed.
June of last year they found 17 polyps in a routine colonoscopy/endoscopy. 2 were abnormally large. The rule of thumb is “More than 5 or >5mm you get re-checked.” Well, 17 total, one was 20mm, one was 30m.
But not cancer as of June.
Report back 1/14 - 6 more polyps and stage 2 cancer. Possibly stage 3, we’ll know more in 5-7 days when lab results are back.
If it got into the lymph system, that’s stage 3 and will need chemo.
March is colon cancer awareness month! Wear blue!
Hmm, perhaps a diet of energy drinks and sodas isn’t all that good for you 🤔
