Originally Posted by
islandboy
No offense meant here. Check out my
website and you will notice I was/am fairly active/healthy. Supplementary vitamins, broccoli, and healthy living
did nothing to prevent my cancer. It caused shock waves through my family as most considered me to have the healthiest of diets.
The problem with the 300+ different cancers is no-one really knows any of the
direct causes, so snake oil remedies are rampant. There seems to be an expert that will back just about anything. When you go through treatment everyone has a solution. The problem is where are your remedies coming from? What is the real quality control procedure? What pesticides were used to grow your broccoli? What was in the water/
rain/soil that your food existed on.
The one statistic that stands out for me is the
number of cancer survivors still breathing directly because of early detection. With this particular cancer there is plenty of living proof of how easy it is to prevent.
Point taken; no offense taken.
Polyps were discovered and removed during my second colonoscopy which puts me on a 3-year cycle and I have no plan to reduce the frequency of them. I still want to take whatever steps I can to avoid worse!
I did not mean to imply that colo-rectal cancer could have been avoided by any specific individual. My understanding (weak at best) is that any "preventative" actions are mostly based on statistical correlation, not necessarily understanding of causation. We "knew" that smoking "caused" lung cancer long before science could describe how simply from the statistics involved.
You make a good point that much of what we are exposed to is outside of our control. For instance, I didn't get much of a say in the selection of my genes, not to mention all of the environmental factors.