Alarm over 200% explosion in young women and girls getting pancreatic cancer

Brookswood said:
I recall on my two trips to the UK (England and Scotland) that drinking in pubs is legend. Even the females who usually can’t hold their liquor as well as larger males drink heartily. I find that sad. A drunken female is not very attractive.

And, because I watch all those British shows on public TV and occasionally BritBox, I know that just about anything that happens in the UK is a reason to go to the local pub and have several pints. Wife have a baby, drink a few beers. The post arrived early today, have a few beers. A murderer has killed the favorite to win the cake decorating contest, hit the pub and down more beer. Ladies get together to knit socks, open a few bottles of wine and finish them off. Charging the EV while driving to Glasgow, walk over the local pub and enjoy a few more pints. ;)
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A friend of mine born and raised in Scotland, educated in England (phd) tells me the British are known as the drunkest people in Europe. I disagree, yet people do argue with me about it.
 

About the apparent smoking link. The only person I know who's been having pancreas problems (though not cancer... yet) is female, but isn't 25. She's a senior, and not a smoker of tobacco, or at least hasn't been for many decades.

She's been a person of independent means for as long as I've known her. A lovely person, very kind and helpful to those in need. Is really socially & environmentally conscious. Also been one of the truly epic consumers of pot I've known, a daily thing at pretty much any hour. Has never gotten into the gummies as an alternative.

So admittedly, this is an isolated example. I have no idea if what I'm posting here would have relevance to the upsurge trend. Though it does make me wonder: are young women smoking quite a lot of cannabis these days?
 
This is the first I've seen this disturbing news. Pancreatic cancer is particularly vitious; it's what killed my grandmother (and Patrick Swayze). Hopefully treatment plans today are much more effective in significantly delaying what used to be a death sentence.
 

OneEyedDiva said:
This is the first I've seen this disturbing news. Pancreatic cancer is particularly vitious; it's what killed my grandmother (and Patrick Swayze). Hopefully treatment plans today are much more effective in significantly delaying what used to be a death sentence.
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I think it is still a death sentence. Haven't heard of any inroads.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
This is the first I've seen this disturbing news. Pancreatic cancer is particularly vitious; it's what killed my grandmother (and Patrick Swayze). Hopefully treatment plans today are much more effective in significantly delaying what used to be a death sentence.
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The survival rate for pancreatic cancer here in Canada is 28 percent for the first year, but only SEVEN PERCENT at 5 years. More than 90 percent of Canadians diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will be dead in 5 years. JimB.
 
I've read reputable scientists. They say that the strongest carcinogens are chemical and oncoviruses. Maybe recently, in food, water and air, there are more of these dangerous causes.
 
I wonder if a combination of earlier puberty for girls, which some researchers think it linked to food additives, like the hormones fed to cattle and chicken to make them fatter quicker, plus Energy Drinks is causing this?

Energy Drinks have so much caffeine, plus plenty of sugar, and I have to wonder if that potent combination is stressing out the pancreas?

We never drank anything like that as young adults or teens. The most powerful thing we ever had was a can of Coke, and Energy Drinks are much more potent than Coca Cola. Although soda is bad, Energy Drinks are 4 to 10 times as bad.

And we never had soda for sale at schools. We would drink water or the kids eating at the cafeteria would get chocolate milk or orange juice.
 
jimintoronto said:
The survival rate for pancreatic cancer here in Canada is 28 percent for the first year, but only SEVEN PERCENT at 5 years. More than 90 percent of Canadians diagnosed with pancreatic cancer will be dead in 5 years. JimB.
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I can't think of anyone who survived pancreatic cancer. If they lived 4 years or more, much of that was as a very sick individual. I think 4 years was the maximum survival time for the people I knew. One survived only 6 months.
 
birdy said:
I can't think of anyone who survived pancreatic cancer. If they lived 4 years or more, much of that was as a very sick individual. I think 4 years was the maximum survival time for the people I knew. One survived only 6 months.
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That's why if I ever get this diagnosis I hope I am brave enough to enter hospice and not fight it and I hope my son understands that decision which I hope I never have to make.
 
We've had a few cases of pancreatic cancer in my family, father died in 1982 at 52 years of age, lived 6 months after diagnosis. My sister passed away 2020, just about to turn 60, she died from an infection, they found cancer in a mass they removed from her pancreas. My aunt gone last year at age 86, lived 4 months after diagnosis. One of my cousins passed away from it as well, but I don't know any of his details.
 
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