how come a heck of alot of people now get cancer??

Question

I personally think the majority is because of all of the nuclear weapons we have tested, I mean, the radiation has to go somewhere and affect something, it can't be coincidence that cancer has risen so much since these weapons were tested, can it? your thoughts please.

Answer 1

Each year, there are 11 million cases of cancer worldwide, and 6 million of those occur in low or middle-income nations. Some 4 million people die from cancer in these countries each year -- 1 million more than die of AIDS.

The risks are increasing due to aging populations, increased tobacco usage, aggressive tobacco industry marketing, lack of basic health information, and the unfortunate behaviors often accompanying rapid economic development, unhealthy lifestyle habits, including poor diet and inadequate exercise.

In fact, controlling tobacco is one of the most important ways nations can attack cancer. Smoking has made lung cancer the most common cancer and the most common cause of cancer death....
Increase tobacco taxes to raise the price of cigarettes and other tobacco products
Ban advertising and promotion of tobacco products
Pass laws making public spaces smoke-free
Put large, explicit health warnings on cigarette packages.

Vaccines can also have a huge impact. More than a quarter of all cancers in low and middle-income countries are caused by infections, in wealthy nations, just 8% are.
Vaccinating children against hepatitis B could prevent many cases of liver cancer, a disease that kills some 500,000 people worldwide each year.
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) causes most cases of cervical cancer, which kills nearly 300,000 women each year, most of them in low- and middle-income nations.

A large proportion of cancer deaths can be attributed to lifestyle factors such as tobacco use and diet and thus are avoidable. Still others may be linked to occupational and environmental exposures that individuals have little or no control over.

Answer 2

The use of industrial chemicals and agricultural chemicals... many of the particularly dangerous ones are no longer used, however they are still rippling through the food chain because they have very long persistence times in the soil etc... as you go up the food chain they tend to bioaccumulate resulting in higher concentrations of them getting into humans. consider that during the post WWII to the eighties, some 1000 to 4000 new chemicals were being developed every year, massively produced, and used extensively. It's only lately that there is a move towards developing chemicals that are less toxic for agricultural and other industrial processes. Of the 70000 common ones currently in use, only 20-30 percent of them have been fiven a thorough toxicological profiling, the remainder have yet to be tested fully and classified. There are many other reasons why the rate of cancer is going up but this line of argument is by far the biggest contributing factor to the noted increase in incidence.

Answer 3

Protein diets are the rage, but cutting back on carbohydrates could mean skimping on cancer protection. A 13-year study of nearly 30,000 women found that those who followed six or more recommendations from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) ran a 35 percent lower risk of cancer than women who met one or none.


Here are 6 of AICR's 15 rules to live longer.


Eat five or more servings of antioxidant-packed vegetables and fruits daily (the new national guideline is five to nine servings a day).


Eat seven or more daily servings of whole grains, legumes, and root vegetables (they're also good sources of antioxidants).


Eat no more than 3 ounces of red meat per day.


Limit saturated fats such as lard, butter, and trans fats.


Try to get at least an hour of moderate exercise daily; at least once a week, step up the intensity so the hour qualifies as vigorous exercise.


Stay away from tobacco.


A lot of it has to do with diet hun. There's a lot of these fad diets out there that say "cut down on carbs" When in all actuality, it's the carbs that help fight diseases.

Answer 4

Not just cancer, autism and other diseases as well, it is what William James the father of modern psychology describes as the collective unconscience. People are such dick heads, now a days that it creates an energy that is conducive for disease and decreases in the human immune system, it may also contribute to global warming. Our thoughts really are things, they have an energy and since our bodies are mostly open space(fact) that energy goes out into the universe and either creates good or bad and unfortunatly it appears thier are more crappy people in the world than good people. Just watch the news for 2 f'n seconds. And if you look at the bible from a scientific point of view, regardless of what you believe you will be protected by simply being kind and decent to those around you, which is actually nice to do any way,
"ten thousand may fall at your right and a thousand may fall at your left, but near you it will not come"Peace

Answer 5

There are a multitude of reasons. The first is that we have the ability to find cancer, whereas for many years people died for various reasons and cause of death was not determined. We are also exposed to many different chemicals (pesticides, additives, building components, fuels, plastics) in the course of a day that we do not know what the effects will be on our body. We may test one chemical, but not the effect of all of these together. For instance, if you are on multiple drugs, doctors worry about drug interactions, but no one can really test for chemical interactions because there are so many, and we eat them, breathe them and touch them. Radiation does cause cancer, but the rates of cancer have increased in areas where there is little effect of radiation. I have cancer and in my life I have worked in a power plant and been exposed to asbestos, pcbs, solvents, paints, fuels, by-products of combustion, as well as some small amount of radiation. My cancer, I believe, was caused a mix of hereditary risk factors compounded by environmental exposure.

Answer 6

Cancer is an ancient disease. It's always been with us and was first recorded by ancient Egyptians. People are not getting more cancer. But we have better treatments and people are now surviving cancer. Prior to this people died and you were not aware of what they were dying from . . they used to say a person died from 'old age' . . so even though it seems like everyone is getting cancer . .what you are seeing is better education and people living longer who happen to have cancer.

You can find cancer in the fossilized remains of ancient man . . I don't think they had nuclear weapons back than.

Answer 7

The only thing we know for certain about cancer is that healthy, normal cells mutate into abnormal cells. The incidence of cancer is on the rise as you said. Could be related to radiation but I'm more concerned about the amount of drugs ( hormones, narcotics, antihypertensives, anticancer drugs)...you name it...it gets dumped into our waste water which is then "purified" into our drinking water. The amount of chemicals that rise into the air from factories, etc. These wash back into our soil and drinking water when it rains. We're being hit with a variety of chemicals and don't even realize it. Many of these chemicals are carcinogens. Scary, huh?

Answer 8

Most of the answers have some bearing on the number of Cancer cases but there is one other factor no one mentoned. We have more or less eradicated a large number of fatal diseases, many people who die of cancer now may well have died of typhoid or other diseases years ago. If we eliminate everything except Cancer then obvoiously that will get us all. The one thing for sure is something gonna kill us. Sorry I am a real cheerful old basket.

Answer 9

I read an article that said that deodorants have a lot of chemicals even some lotions and make up and that's why actors get it more often because of the exposures to all these items. That's why a lot of people is going organic.

Answer 10

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