Is there a cancer prevention subreddit?
Posted Jan 14, 2015, 12:50 PM UTC
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And just at the start of this month a study came out with the conclusion that around 2/3 of cancers are just bad luck and not related to lifestyle or genetics. Here's an article with more information: http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/two-thirds-of-adult-cancers-largely-due-to-bad-luck-study-suggests-1.2170161
Living a healthy lifestyle is good for long life and prevents some cancers, but sometimes healthy-living individuals still get cancer anyway.
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I don't believe that the study takes into account the body's ability to fight cancer after it has developed, which is just as important as never getting it, and will still fall under the category of prevention since it would be things like diet and exercise that would build up your defenses.
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I think if one was created it would be full of conjecture, the problem with cancer is there are so many factors and we don't fully understand every carcinogen yet. Also it could lead to a lot of "I have x, y, and z, do I have cancer" type posts.
Honestly I think it could be great but it would be difficult to moderate and prevent fear-mongering.
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Agree. It would be nice in its purest form, but probably wouldn't turn out like one would want it to. I led a healthy lifestyle, didn't smoke and was active and got lung cancer anyway.
You can try to prevent cancer by cutting back on certain "risk factors" but there's nothing that can or will make you 100% immune from it.
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Yeah that's exactly it, even growing increases your risk of cancer (more cells; more cell division; more opportunities for mutation to take place).
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I agree. But at the same time I think a there's no better reason for a topic of discussion in that we don't know the solid answers yet. If we had a good moderator I'm sure it would work and potentially help a lot of people.
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I don't know about a sub, but Livestrong has great nutritional above & lifestyle advice that may help prevent the truly preventable cancers, in the absence of other risk.
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Don't eat meat - causes cancer
Don't smoke - causes cancer
Don't drink - causes cancer
Don't breathe - causes cancer
Live your life - causes cancer
Diet, exercise, medical checkups and checking yourself for what you can (testicle, breast, lymphs) would help but don't worry nobody makes it out alive!
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Exactly the reason more discussion and medical research is needed. I'm reluctant to believe that cancer is just random. So many things have been dismissed as random before we found out that we just couldn't see the cause at the time.
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The nature of mutations in the human body is what makes the argument that cancer is random. There are plenty of causes of cancer from natural mutations to mutations caused by carcinogens to various viruses and unfortunately there's nothing anyone can do to ensure they definitely won't get cancer.
Do a bit of reading in journals and other scientific papers, reading tabloids, newspapers, and random internet articles won't give the information you're after. A lot of them are quite sensationalist and warp studies and the truth to get more hits and page views.
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"unfortunately there's nothing anyone can do to ensure they definitely won't get cancer."
I agree about there's no way to definitely prevent it. Right now. Are you saying that there won't be a way in the future? I don't think it's possible to come to that sort of conclusion. Eventually we'll have better methods and knowledge and better detection equipment.
If we know some reasons for mutations doesn't it sound like we're just part way through finding the rest or most of the rest?
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I think r/health posts on that topic more than occasionally. Try there?