Cancer Cure?

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m0L3ify
6 months ago
This is so true. I used to work in cancer research and no one ever talked about diet or prevention. Ever. All our work was geared towards slowing growth, and 20% cure rates were considered great successes and celebrated. It was so odd to me. I never felt like that was good enough. The doctors in the department would give talks on how their aim was not cure, but maintenance...stopping the growth of tumors so the patient could live with them longer. I couldn't believe it. Patients want tumors out of them and gone. They don't want to learn to live with them. Would you? It was a very depressing job. When I learned about plant-based diets a couple years after I quit, and read all the science on it, I was blown away. There's SO MUCH information out there! Why hadn't any of this ever come up in department meetings?? I immediately switched to a whole-food plant-based diet and haven't looked back. Maybe if I'd known then what I know now, I might have quit sooner..."
I read this post and was like "hmm, maybe I Should really start thinking about what I'm eating..". Then I saw who posted it. Now I need bacon
 

zubenelgenubi

I'm a star
It’s been going down in America the last several years.

4 months over three years. It will be fine.

Except for all the people developing the various cancers that seem to be rising everywhere.

Gotta take all those things with a grain of salt. Whenever a group wants to draw attention to a particular concern, their go to is to link it to cancer. Unless they are able to explain the mechanism by which a substance "causes" cancer, then it is mostly speculation, or straight up lies. Smoking does not cause cancer, if it did, everyone who smoked would get cancer, but they don't. Smoking is a risk factor, just like "forever chemicals" are a risk factor.
 

vantexan

Well-Known Member
4 months over three years. It will be fine.



Gotta take all those things with a grain of salt. Whenever a group wants to draw attention to a particular concern, their go to is to link it to cancer. Unless they are able to explain the mechanism by which a substance "causes" cancer, then it is mostly speculation, or straight up lies. Smoking does not cause cancer, if it did, everyone who smoked would get cancer, but they don't. Smoking is a risk factor, just like "forever chemicals" are a risk factor.
Although it's possible non-smokers are a fraction of those who contract lung cancer and emphysema. I'll take my chances not smoking.
 

zubenelgenubi

I'm a star
Although it's possible non-smokers are a fraction of those who contract lung cancer and emphysema. I'll take my chances not smoking.

No one needs to smoke. But only 10% of regular smokers develop lung cancer, whereas 20% of people who die from lung cancer are non-smokers. The greater risks from smoking are cardio-vascular. My only point was that smoking does not cause lung cancer, but most people think it does due to over-hyped propaganda.
 
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