Cancer
 

do you do anything to avoid it? I read that leading medics agree that if you eat the right diet, live the right lifestyle etc you can probably improve your chances of avoiding it by 70%-80%.

I wonder if it will ever be cured, or is it too difficult a challenge. Many say its really 100's of different diseases under one big umbrella label 'cancer'.

I often wonder if avoiding eating meat, and not eating burnt things might help

No I do not. I have the impression that if its gunna happen, its gunna happen.

Besides, if you listened to everything thats supposed to cause cancer you would never leave your home, and live on raw veg (but not carrots)

my grandma used to eat a lot of burnt stuff and she got stomach cancer bless her soul

well there are probably a lot of toxins involved in cooking food

My mum died of lung cancer. I think it's the smoking that caused it. :(:(

My aunty never smoked (nor allowed smoking in her house), never drank, very rarely ate 'treats', had the most healthy diet one could imagine and did loads of exercise.

She died of cancer of the liver.

Hence why I dont think it makes much difference how you live really.

I always remember seeing that Supersize McDonlalds program and he left a Big Mac to decompose, it never did! It's no wonder if you eat that stuff it just sits in your bowels and the cancer grows on it or something

Fast food is very unhealthy. Better not eat it too often.

I lost my dad to cancer in 95 I think it was in his esophagus initially.

Sorry to hear that, Kizzy! I know how hard cancer is. I still can't believe my mum isn't here anymore. And it's been almost two years.

I'm so sorry to hear that vanessa, as long as we are thankful for them everyday they are never really gone :)

Thanks. I agree. They'll always be with us. :(

I have a pretty healthy diet, I exercise everyday, I stay away form alcohol and cigarettes.

But I don't know if any of that stuff will help against cancer, I know it will help against things like stokes and having a bad heart.

My father died of cancer, so it's a worry, but I also feel that in a way I've tried to prevent getting it to the best of my knowledge. So if it happens to me, I would blame my genes rather than my lifestyle.

What will be will be

As a contrasting story my great Grandad smoked till he was in his 70s and drank his whole life and lived to 107

I do think you might be able to slightly change your chances though, but I tend not to give it much thought

they say we are all born with cancer cells its just a case of if they develope and where.

Yeah you might be able to lower the risks...but I dont see why people worry about doing things they enjoy on the offchance that it *might* increase their chances of getting cancer. Everyone dies of something at the end of the day, I would much rather it be through something I caused myself through living my life as I want to, not how docs tell me to (I know that sounds morbid as hell though :laugh: )

Chances are even if I gave up smoking and such now, I would still get cancer anyway. My mother had a genetic form of breast cancer and has been told that her kids are high risk of getting the same. So I try not to think about anything too much really.

Also as a side story, when going through treatment for breast cancer, her consultant was bugging her to quit the fags as this might cause cancer...needless to say my mother told her to st fu. This same consultant also advised my mother to lose weight and be more healthy...my mum is a tiny bit fatter than a rake, and apparently the consultant was about 20 stone :joker:

No I don't really do anything to avoid it, the way I see it, people live a perfectly healthy lifestyle, but it doesn't stop them getting cancer, I might as well just live the way I want, if its gonna happen, it's gonna happen.

Not really, I smoke and I drink quite a lot. I don't live healthy at all.

I do nothing to excess but I don't really think much can be done to stop cancer happening.
It is still a rotten disease and I feel for anyone who has it and also those who have seen someone with it and lost someone close to it too.
You feel so powerless.

I feel very sorry for the people here who have lost people because of cancer.
I myself lost a grandparent to skin cancer and a grandmother to leukemia.
I think it improver your chance a bit, but you can still have it. I mean afterall it can be a genetical condition.
I'm want to be far away from cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol, not just because of cancer but because of the other inumeros horrible things they can do to you after a while.

I've been watching a few films about Cancer recently, one I can't remember the name this guy gets Cancer and his friend sticks by him but his gf leaves him. He survives and the other night I saw 'my sister's keeper' about a young girl with Leukemia. She dies at the end of the film. I'm not sure how realistic they really are but they did give me a good insight and a 'wake up' call into the whole thing.

I recently had a family friend die of cervical cancer she was only 35. Kind of made me think a bit more carefully I guess.

It's a terrible illness. You feel so powerless. And there's nothing you can do about it. :(

Yeah it must be awful Vanessa, not only the illness but also the treatment. The chemo must be terrible.