Prozac linked to cancer? Bulldrek in immediate danger!

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Prozac linked to cancer? Bulldrek in immediate danger!

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Thought this was kind of interesting - http://news.independent.co.uk/world/sci ... ory=278505

I'm too sleepy to say much about it, but I thought that some other people may have some stuff to say about this.
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Everything is linked to cancer nowadays.
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I have to try and dig up a humor piece done about 2 years ago where the author managed to link everything to cancer in some way, even things as simple as walking and breathing.
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Hey, breathing is bad for you, corrodes the lungs...besides, if we're all related by seven degrees to Kevin Bacon, then we're all going to get cancer someday.
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Did you hear? Turning on lamps is linked to cancer! Drinking Cola Cola will help you digest that burger. Playing the Sims is linked to ellipsey. Playing with stuffed animals is also linked to cancer.

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Well, isn't your body pretty terrible at killing off cancer cells in the first place? I mean, that's why it's cancer.
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Does anyone have any links to information on the first known cases of cancer and why it seems to have just appeared in the 20th century?
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Post by DrunkenMaster »

Good question Daki, that is something I've been interested in knowing as well.

Off the top of my head I'd say it is because people are living longer and we needed something to kill us off in our old age.
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I would be more inclined to say that it was only after the major industrialization in countries like the US and Europe that cancer started to appear.
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The history of cancer.
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I would be more inclined to say that it was only after the major industrialization in countries like the US and Europe that cancer started to appear.
Or started to be diagnosed.
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Well, isn't your body pretty terrible at killing off cancer cells in the first place? I mean, that's why it's cancer.
No, actually your body's pretty good at killing off cancer cells, which is why it's usually not cancer.
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Well, I'd guess the main reason cancer has seemed to become so prevalent in the past century or so is because suddenly people are living long enough not to get killed off by other things first. I mean, when people regularly died of pneumonia, they weren't around long enough to develop lung cancer all that often.
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Cancer is pretty much just a fluke in the cell. bad genes tell the cells to keep growing. I guess it's a cell's way of showing age. All the other, healthy cells around it are like olympic athletes. Then there's this one cell that's the drunk, crackpot, toothless street bitch wondering around.
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One of Australia's most effective breast-cancer awareness campaigns featured a painting by (I think) Rembrandt, featuring a semi-nude woman (it may have been Bathsheba at her Bath but I really can't remember.

The gist of the campaign was along the lines of 'this was a beautiful woman, but see the <various marks> Rembrandt represented so faithfully? They couldn't have known that this is one of the first visible signs of breast cancer. Go get checked' etc. Basically, without realising it, Rembrandt had accurately painted the tumourous breast of his model (his lover?). Cancer's been around a long time.
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I don´t really understand why, but I find that very disturbing. Looking at that picture made my skin crawl. I suppose that reaction is why the campaign was so effective.
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