Cancer is a crap shoot 50/50

[Kick'nAssCancer'sAss]

As someone who lived a healthy lifestyle, worked out, did not smoke or drink, had a normal BMI, no family history this is something I always thought. Cancer really is just bad luck in 50% of dx.

http://globalnews.ca/news/3337149/reali ... at-random/

[CRguy]

Will read the news link as it is in my timezone !

BUTT ... yup Mediterranean diet, hard workouts (teaching and training karate) 2 hours 3x / week, meditation, Qigong, loving family, great kids (now grandkids), good career as a vet ...... yada yada yada etc. = still won the CRC lottery
As I see it : great genes to survive here .. BUTT maybe not so great as to have been hit in the first place ... JMO

BUTT .... "as going a long way to lowering the risk of cancer " describes possible modifiable / controllable / identifiable factors.
Sometimes we can do it right .. and still get hit
again .. JMO

Cheers buddy
CR

[BeansMama]

As someone who happened to hit the bad DNA lottery, it is a crap shoot. Many in my family hit the crap lottery too, and I eat healthier than they do yet I get hut with CRC.

Sometimes it is just bad luck.

[Maia]

Cancer really is just bad luck in 50% of dx.

Word.

[JudiB]

Yep ...we try to do everything right for our bodies but it still hits us... Life can be so nean can't it?!
Good luck..... Keep fighting .....we"re bigger than this thing well, most of the time anyway!
Judi xxxxx

[LMighty]

After my mom's initial diagnosis and subsequent colostomy, I was told that my mom had a 98% chance to be cancer free for the rest of her life. My signature says the rest.

I try to think that the unpredictability also means we can beat the odds if we believe.

[NeVadasMitis]

LMighty, I hear you. My dad was stage 1, and supposedly 90% likely to be "cured". My mom was the one we were more worried about recurrence for, having had Stage II. While I am extremely grateful my mom is still okay 10 years on, the fact that my dad is now Stage IV really threw me for a loop at first. It totally undermined and destabilized the little safe place that I had created for myself as I tried to deal...the whole idea of "if only x, things will be fine," "if only y, it's going to be okay" all goes out the window as you realize you just can never know for sure.

[BIG ROB 69]

I agree, and also believe a healthy lifestyle helps to fight and defeat it.