I believe, based on my family's experience, that people do have some idea what could have caused thier own cancer.
What I mean is..I know that in some individuals that have certain genes and predispositions, exposure to certain environmental factors could trigger the disease.
In my family's case, my mom has spray painted some furniture in the garage, using a few cans of spary paint. She didn't have a mask. She didn't open the garage door or windows -basically no ventilation and she inhaled all the fumes, day after day, at CLOSE range.
A couple month later..aggresive leukemia AML.
We looked back ..went to see wtf was on the spray cans..yes -warning that it could lead to..cancer!
What do you think triggered your disease?
-living near a chemical plant
-exposure to chemicals
-pesticides
-lead
-contaminated water..
what? we can't be sure..we can't prove it..yet I feel this was one of the straws that broke the camel's back...if not THE straw. My Aunt passed away last year from a form of Ovarian Cancer....and she had had a complete hysterectomy 20 years prior to her finding out she had cancer. (If this makes you scratch your head as to how she could have Ovarian Cancer when she had no ovaries like it did me, please email me and I will explain it.) She worked at a factory for close to thirty years before she got so sick and had to quit. I sometimes wonder if some of the chemicals she had to work with contributed to her cancer.
The area that I live in has a high cancer rate. I once read that we have a higher cancer per capita than anywhere else in the US. There are several nurseries in my county and the next county over (Warren County, TN) is known as the Nursery Capital of the World.
I believe that the chemicals that they spray on these plants gets into our streams and creeks from run-off from the nurseries and gets into our drinking water. I honestly feel that this is the reason the cancer rate is so high in my area.
I feel really bad for you and your family. I pray that your Mother gets better from this horrible, evil disease. I had always known that cancer was bad but I didn't realize how bad it was until the last three months of my Aunt's life. My Aunt was only 58 years old when she passed way. I would have liked for her to have been at my wedding and seen my cousins children grown. I have learned that not only does cancer make you physically ill, it takes away so much from you. I hope that one day, someone finds a cure for it or finds a way to prevent it.
God bless you and your family. on holiday 3 years ago my husband had a bad fall he never himself after that 6 months later he was diagnosed with cancer he still has it thats really interesting, my father in law has lukemia, quite a rare strain and he worked as a car spray painter for years I am certain it was this , I am terrified my son or husband will inherit this but I am certain it was the spray paint exposure.he was give 8 weeks but a year later is still fighting it and his quality of life is better than it was, you didn't say how your mum is, now, did she recover? its a horrible thing to happen sometimes the mental state can do it to. check this book call a womans wisdom. also the above is true and the stuff they put in beauty products big time. did the can actually say you could get cancer???? wow that's deep. my dads lung cancer we know from his inquest was caused by exposure to Asbestos my sisters pancreatic was due to diet and smoking for 40 years Well I cant prove anything either but we are still working on it.. I was a great athlete all my like i.e. in 2002 I was in Paris and won the world racquetball Championship for my age bracket and only took the game up at age 55. I have never smoked and only drink at parties (light beer) But to me this is the clincher.. I have worked around and in Nuclear Power Plants and have been exposed to radiation to the point I have been burned out a couple times (to much exposier) I was never sick and never did break out.. but 20 years later I come down with Lymphomascytic Lymphoma and Amyloidosis. I truly think my sickness is from Nukes... I was around all that stuff... Radiation, Lead and contaminated water... I worked 26 days at 12 hours a day when the 3 mile accident happened.. Exposer to Radiation? You betcha.... Have a great day Grant M in Pennsylvania Both people I've known who had lung cancer were smokers living in high radon areas.
The woman I know of who died of cervical cancer was a smoker and alcoholic who cheated on her husband (probably where she got the HPV), and never got pap smears. (Very late detection.)
I've also known lots of women who have had breast cancer. In those cases, it's not clear what caused their cancer. Other than a few types of cancer almost no one knows what causes this ancient disease. Cancer has been around for thousands of years, long before modern environmental carcinogens appeared.
the History of Cancer
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/conten...
My son has a rare abdominal sarcoma that almost always appears only in boys and young adults. I do not believe that his cancer was caused by anything that he was exposed to or anything that he did. I believe that his cancer is the result of his internal clock . . and is hormonal related in some way. It just seems odd that boys almost 4 to 1 have this disease and they are always young. His cancer has nothing to do with diet or radiation or chemical exposure or smoking . . but it is far more likely that puberty or somthing to do with being male is the culprit.
It is clear that there may be many different 'causes' for cancer . . or not . . no one knows exactly why one person will get a cancer when exposed to a certain carcinogen, while another person will not get the cancer. I have been dealing with aml for 3 years. I believe a combo of things caused my cancer, number one being cig smoke. My family has smoked for as long as I can remember around me, and ofcourse I started smoking in jr high. Cigs contain benzene which is def linked to aml.
Growing up, actually until about 6 months before being diagnosed, I lived in the chemical valley of wv (gen known as ashland ky east through huntington wv to charleston wv, home to many many chemical plants). Sev other ppl in that area that I know are being diagnosed with all forms of leukemia, so I have to wonder..
Also, working in fast food we often used and mixed chemicals that we shouldnt. About every 2-3 months we would give the store a complete scrub down where we were mixing bleach with titan(grease remover) and all the other chemicals we had. I never went back to look at the ingrediants of those chemicals, but I do know that the way we used them was very dangerous. I would go home needing to use my step dads inhaler for about a week.
I also blame bug spray. I dont care how safe the companies say that spray is, all of my docs have told me not to be around it. | 