Cancer is man-made

hardboiled · Post by **hardboiled** » Thu 21st Oct 2010 11:03 pm

A good article on the nature of karma. And, that with progress, comes progress.

Scientists suggest that cancer is purely man-made
October 14, 2010

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer is a modern, man-made disease caused by environmental factors such as pollution and diet, a study by University of Manchester scientists has strongly suggested.

The study of remains and literature from ancient Egypt and Greece and earlier periods – carried out at Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology and published in Nature Reviews Cancer – includes the first histological diagnosis of cancer in an Egyptian mummy.
Finding only one case of the disease in the investigation of hundreds of Egyptian mummies, with few references to cancer in literary evidence, proves that cancer was extremely rare in antiquity. The disease rate has risen massively since the Industrial Revolution, in particular childhood cancer – proving that the rise is not simply due to people living longer.
Professor Rosalie David, at the Faculty of Life Sciences, said: “In industrialised societies, cancer is second only to cardiovascular disease as a cause of death. But in ancient times, it was extremely rare. There is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer. So it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and lifestyle.”
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-sci ... -made.html

Iko · Post by **Iko** » Thu 21st Oct 2010 11:26 pm

Often wondered this myself.
My father died a few years ago to one of the most rare types of cancer there is.

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Thu 21st Oct 2010 11:42 pm

my dad's demise was cncer, and i think what he got it from (agent orange) was man made.

Kingdoc · Post by **Kingdoc** » Fri 22nd Oct 2010 08:23 pm

Wouldnt surprise me.

gixxer · Post by **gixxer** » Fri 22nd Oct 2010 09:45 pm

cantona7 wrote:my dad's demise was cncer, and i think what he got it from (agent orange) was man made.

thats bad shit m8

i know your dad was a vet, nam?

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Fri 22nd Oct 2010 09:49 pm

gixxer wrote:
cantona7 wrote:my dad's demise was cncer, and i think what he got it from (agent orange) was man made.
thats bad shit m8

i know your dad was a vet, nam?

yea. caused his cancer as well as gave him diabetis. the us government va kinda fucked him over. he wasn't very popular..rocked way to many boats with the pow/mia issue trying to prove they left us and other "allied" troops over there. speaking of which..it will be 1 year since he passed on 10/29.

gixxer · Post by **gixxer** » Fri 22nd Oct 2010 10:10 pm

he sounds a gr8 guy m8

think i coulda shared a pint and a smoke with him

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Fri 22nd Oct 2010 10:31 pm

gixxer wrote:he sounds a gr8 guy m8

think i coulda shared a pint and a smoke with him

yea man he was a god guy. he would have def taken that pint haha. maybe if we're ever in town at the same time i can tell you alot of stories. reagan and his press sec called my house once (i was like 2..1986)wanting to speak to him about the pow/mia issue and and my mom totally blew him off basically hung up haha.

Pauli Wallnuts · Post by **Pauli Wallnuts** » Sat 23rd Oct 2010 01:09 am

cantona7 wrote: reagan and his press sec called my house once (i was like 2..1986)wanting to speak to him about the pow/mia issue and and my mom totally blew him off basically hung up haha.

gixxer · Post by **gixxer** » Sat 23rd Oct 2010 10:32 am

^^^^^^^^^^

CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY · Sat 23rd Oct 2010 10:39 am

imnot any sort of expert on diseases/genetics etc. but heres what i thought:

the life expectency of people has boomed in the last century, and has pretty much doubled in the last 500 years. lots of obvious factors count towards this, all of which are factors we have created. medicines, living conditions, lifestyles etc etc.

so, our living longer is not a natural thing, we managed to do it, a lot quicker than evolution.

so i was thinking....

cancer may be man made in so far as we have made ourselves live too long, into ages that were very rare previously, and i think its a safe estimate to say the majority of cancer cases are in over 60's. lukemia and rarer cases of cancer at young age aside, we may all be prone to cancers now simply because our bodys are not really meant to last this long, and start 'falling apart' in a way.

make sense?

Colina · Post by **Colina** » Sat 23rd Oct 2010 11:30 am

good point of view, I think that might be the basic reason for cancer in high age. but there are a lot of cancers I think they are def caused by pollution and of cause our lifestyle. Like too much rush, stress and pressure people have to deal with nowadays, and our food in very important imo!

hardboiled · Post by **hardboiled** » Sat 23rd Oct 2010 07:51 pm

CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY wrote:simply because our bodys are not really meant to last this long, and start 'falling apart' in a way.

make sense?

It does....but..... lifespans have varied over the millenia, and several societies saw people living long lives. This study actually looked at that, and found that if people lived long enough for other age related conditions, then why not cancer?

"It has been suggested that the short life span of individuals in antiquity precluded the development of cancer. Although this statistical construct is true, individuals in ancient Egypt and Greece did live long enough to develop such diseases as atherosclerosis, Paget's disease of bone, and osteoporosis, and, in modern populations, bone tumours primarily affect the young."

hardboiled · Post by **hardboiled** » Sat 23rd Oct 2010 07:53 pm

the point I find in this is how karmic life is. Yin/yang and all.

Tho we have longer lifespans & better technology, the trade off is cancer.

Pauli Wallnuts · Post by **Pauli Wallnuts** » Sun 24th Oct 2010 12:40 am

benzene &fluoride in drinking water