I hope this is where this thread goes. My dog has recently died from cancer. It was sad and tough, and now that it’s over I’ve just realized something. My mother had cancer, my dad has had some cancer, my first and now second dog has died of cancer. I had a hamster with a tumour, and my next door neighbor also has cancer.
Is it possible that there is some root source here? I almost want to poll the whole block to find out how many people have had cancer on the block! My parents only smoked briefly (like a few months 30 years ago) and my Dad’s cancer was skin cancer.
My mother has had cancer twice. My sister Lisa has breast cancer now. My 25-year old nephew had thyroid cancer surgically removed 6 months ago. I had one dog with testicular cancer (easy surgical fix) and and with a potentially deadly bone cancer. My father died of lung cancer. Of my mother’s 10 sibs, 5 have had cancer. My paternal grandmother died of pancreatic cancer.
I think part of it is that people (and animals) are lving longer, increasing the probabilty that they’ll eventually get it.
Yes, I would agree with StGermain’s reasoning. Unfortunately cancer is pretty common among older people so I suspect that this is more a reflection that, if you don’t die of something else first, you’re at an increasingly high risk of getting some kind of cancer as you get older.
My best wishes to all of your family and friends who are dealing with cancer.
About one in three people will die of cancer. So the odds that both someone’s parents will is one in nine, putting aside that they live in a common environment and so any external trigger is likely to be shared.
However a lot more people gets cancer than die of it. For instance your father’s skin cancer is almost universal in white skinned people who spend or spent a reasonable amount of time outdoors when they were young.
So no, I think there’s nothing remarkable about what you’re seeing at all.
A survey would either relax you about your neighborhood or scare the hell out of you… It wouldn’t be too hard to poll… It is not family related unless your relatioinship to your animals is too close. I would have to know.