It isn't just the UK, cancer is rife everywhere!
Chemicals sprayed on crops, antibiotics and growth hormones given to the animals we eat, smoking, alcohol, drugs (recreational and medicinal), car fumes, pollution and poisoned fish to name just a few of the problems we have in the food chain.
2007-02-23 04:53:45
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answer #1
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answered by huggz 7
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This is variation on a question that pops up every day, usually asked by somebody living in a relatively well-off country (US, Canada, countries of Europe, ect.)
The answer is : flawed statistics.
Rich countries always show up higher rates for all cancers than third world countries (those that actually have enough money to compile stats!). Why ? Because most of the people in these countries get their cancers diagnosed. That is definitely not the case in third world countries (in which by the way most people on earth live), where there is no access to doctors for most of the population. An african kid gets leukemia ? His parents will think he has malaria. That he died of fever. Malaria kills a lot more kids than leukemia.
It's very easy to blame cancer rates on anything (from pasteurized milk to vaccines to unidentified "toxins") that we think is such a big problem in rich countries...
2007-02-23 07:37:31
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answered by Anonymous
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There are two main answers to this, and I think the jury's out one which one has the greater effect. So I'll list them in this order:
1. People eat far too much of the so-called "healthy" oils like corn and sunflower, and not enough oily fish. The fatty acid that makes up most of these oils is linoleic acid which has been shown to encourage cancer of all kinds (yes, including melanoma, which is now believed by some to be caused by veg oil and not by the sun), as well as heart disease and a few other nasties. The way to overcome this is to eat fewer chips (and try cooking them in olive oil), more fish, and to switch back to butter.
2. People are too frightened of the sun!! Used responsibly, and by that I mean approx 20 mins exposure over as much of the body as possible, on as many days of the year as possible. Regular moderate sun exposure has been shown to reduce your risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, MS and schizophrenia.
2007-02-24 12:12:27
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answered by Anonymous
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Don't know so much about chemicals per se, however cigarettes, alcohol,bad diets, obesity all combine to produce many forms of cancer. There will be other links also, however simply eliminating tobacco would drastically reduce the number of cancer cases each year. Strange how humans will shrug off smoking and the link with cancer by saying " you have to die of something!"
2007-02-23 04:14:59
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answered by Raymo 6
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Think UK is not alone - there does seem to be more of it about these days - that could be to do with a lot of things.
People living longer so more cancer noted, more chemicals, hole in the ozone layer, drugs (all) + medication, poisons ingested through food, detergents (washing up liquid, bleach, toothpaste etc. etc.) and air pollution including smoking (all) + passive smoking - the list can go on........
2007-02-23 08:23:01
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answered by Jewel 6
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To many chemicals in our food, water, and the air we breathe. Our diet has to much much red meat coupled with high sugar content. Do not believe organic foods are healthily for you, as a farmer I know that there is so much chemicals in the ground that it take a least 50 years for the soil to become chemical free again. So it is a case of pot luck you either get cancer or you do not.
2007-02-27 01:43:51
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answered by Anonymous
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There is no more cancer in the UK than most of the rest of the developed world
2007-02-23 04:11:03
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answered by Anonymous
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My hypothesis is this...
Cancer is a disease that mostly affects the older population. The UK since it is a developed country has a large "older" generation. The more older people in a population, the more prevalent cancer is.
2007-02-26 04:12:31
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answered by Katie C 1
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believe me it's not just the uk, I have just spent 3 months in a hospital in Spain with my daughter who has leukemia and the wards there are full to bursting with cancer patients. I also think that chemicals sprayed on crops have a lot to answer for, think about it. they are digested by the plant so that bugs disease etc die when they are consumed so does it not follow that if we digest enough, these chemicals could have the similar effect on humans...
2007-02-23 09:38:29
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answered by astral 2
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As more people are saved from more diseases, including some cancers, they live longer and become prone to other diseases including cancers.
An example is, if you stop people dying from heart attacks, they live longer and have a chance to get cancer. Statistics could therefore claim that a low fat diet causes more people to suffer from cancer.
2007-02-23 04:14:45
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answered by Sprinkle 5
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