Like a sports injury, a bruise, etc. My son was hit by a hockey puck on his shin last January, and was even xrayed at the time...nothing. Then in April he gets this lump, we check it out and it's cancer, localized lymphoma.
Had anyone else's cancer started due to some type of injury? Just curious because there must be some connection but the doctor's say they simply don't know the causes, but there seems to be some correlation.
2006-12-11
11:44:06
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Well I did ask the oncologists and this was at Sick Kids so that's all they specialize in and they said the co-incidence is more common that you would think. It must be something underlying that was brought out by the injury, or somehow the body was unable to heal itself...but never overlook something like that thinking it's "nothing"...in our case it wasn't "nothing". He's cancer free and our chemo is over...I pray it never comes back too, it's such a terrible thing those drugs.
2006-12-12
09:39:02 ·
update #1
If you talk to people who have had cancer...many will say they fell, they bumped into something...my own aunt died of cancer and every swears it was from a "needle touching her bone"...she had gotten a shot and afterwards her arm got more and more sore...ends up it's bone cancer...another woman we know said her daughter hit her hard in the breast...and it was so sore she went to the doctor and you got it, breast cancer...so injuries sometimes bring these things to light, or activate the process. I think it's like a switch that for some reason turns on. They have to find out why that happens so they can stop it for everyone. Smoking...well hey, 300 carcinogenics inhaled daily for 20 or 30 years and you don't know WHY?
2006-12-12
09:44:10 ·
update #2