cancer causes

FlDino
FlDino Member Posts: 11
edited March 2014 in Caregivers #1
I'd like to get any stories from people who developed a cancer in an area that was hit or traumatized by any means.

I've been told stories of people getting hit in an area, having pain weeks or months later, getting checked, and being told they had cancer in the same area.

If anybody here has a similar story twho would like to share I'd be interested to hear it. My wife developed cancer in an area she was hit in. A continuing pain that got so bad she had to go to the ER and get it checked. They found cancer in her gallbladder which is undwer the area she had 6 broken ribs, 4 in 2 places, and a punctured lung.

Doctors say it can't happen but I've heard a few stories that say otherwise. Please if you have a story similar I'd like to know.

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  • MRE13
    MRE13 Member Posts: 3
    #2
    Cancer in the place of an injury.
    I knew of someone who fell and badly hurt her leg although I am not sure if the bone was actually broken. The injury was nasty and the pain would not go away so after reasonable time awaiting in vain that the injury healed she was carefully checked. They found around there cancer, I believe that the actual diagnosis was bone cancer. After having the leg amputated followed by heavy treatments she completely recovered and lived in good health for at least 20 years. She died of neumonia at long age. In these cases it is obviously difficult to know if the cancer was there already, then it produced some weakness in the leg that made the woman fell and afterwards got manifested with all the pain and nasty wound; or if the injuries in the tissues produced by the accident constituted some source of nasty inflammation that eventually turned the cells crazy and triggered a tumour.
  • slickwilly
    slickwilly Member Posts: 334 Member
    #3
    MRE13 said:

    Cancer in the place of an injury.
    I knew of someone who fell and badly hurt her leg although I am not sure if the bone was actually broken. The injury was nasty and the pain would not go away so after reasonable time awaiting in vain that the injury healed she was carefully checked. They found around there cancer, I believe that the actual diagnosis was bone cancer. After having the leg amputated followed by heavy treatments she completely recovered and lived in good health for at least 20 years. She died of neumonia at long age. In these cases it is obviously difficult to know if the cancer was there already, then it produced some weakness in the leg that made the woman fell and afterwards got manifested with all the pain and nasty wound; or if the injuries in the tissues produced by the accident constituted some source of nasty inflammation that eventually turned the cells crazy and triggered a tumour.

    Making sense of causes
    I guess if we had the answers to all the questions about cancer causes we would not be here. Many years ago a young female friend was out snowmobiling. Her foot slipped off the side of the sled and hit a chunk of ice. At 16 years of age she developed cancer where her foot had been injured. She passed two years later. I had three root canals on the right side of my face over a three year period of time. I developed Difuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the nerve and along the bones in the right side of my face.
    On the flip side of this. I had an aunt that hardly ever left her home. She raised three children out in the country. She never smoked or drank in her life. She was not around chemicals or any type of bad environment. She died of lung cancer.
    I believe anyone can get cancer. We all have physical or emotional times in our lives and it just takes the right trigger at the right time. We can move things along faster with our lifestyle or environment. But its pretty hard to adapt that idea to a young child.
    In the end I quit looking for this answer as I could spend the rest of my life beating myself up. Wondering what I did wrong. Why this person or that person had cancer. Why me. Why a young child. If I spent my life looking for someone or something to blame I would quit living life. Best wishes. Slickwilly
  • soccerfreaks
    soccerfreaks Member Posts: 2,788 Member
    #4
    slickwilly said:

    Making sense of causes
    I guess if we had the answers to all the questions about cancer causes we would not be here. Many years ago a young female friend was out snowmobiling. Her foot slipped off the side of the sled and hit a chunk of ice. At 16 years of age she developed cancer where her foot had been injured. She passed two years later. I had three root canals on the right side of my face over a three year period of time. I developed Difuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the nerve and along the bones in the right side of my face.
    On the flip side of this. I had an aunt that hardly ever left her home. She raised three children out in the country. She never smoked or drank in her life. She was not around chemicals or any type of bad environment. She died of lung cancer.
    I believe anyone can get cancer. We all have physical or emotional times in our lives and it just takes the right trigger at the right time. We can move things along faster with our lifestyle or environment. But its pretty hard to adapt that idea to a young child.
    In the end I quit looking for this answer as I could spend the rest of my life beating myself up. Wondering what I did wrong. Why this person or that person had cancer. Why me. Why a young child. If I spent my life looking for someone or something to blame I would quit living life. Best wishes. Slickwilly

    :)
    Well said.

    Take care,

    Joe
  • FlDino
    FlDino Member Posts: 11
    #5
    slickwilly said:

    Making sense of causes
    I guess if we had the answers to all the questions about cancer causes we would not be here. Many years ago a young female friend was out snowmobiling. Her foot slipped off the side of the sled and hit a chunk of ice. At 16 years of age she developed cancer where her foot had been injured. She passed two years later. I had three root canals on the right side of my face over a three year period of time. I developed Difuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma in the nerve and along the bones in the right side of my face.
    On the flip side of this. I had an aunt that hardly ever left her home. She raised three children out in the country. She never smoked or drank in her life. She was not around chemicals or any type of bad environment. She died of lung cancer.
    I believe anyone can get cancer. We all have physical or emotional times in our lives and it just takes the right trigger at the right time. We can move things along faster with our lifestyle or environment. But its pretty hard to adapt that idea to a young child.
    In the end I quit looking for this answer as I could spend the rest of my life beating myself up. Wondering what I did wrong. Why this person or that person had cancer. Why me. Why a young child. If I spent my life looking for someone or something to blame I would quit living life. Best wishes. Slickwilly

    I believe as some say, we
    I believe as some say, we all have cancer inside us. Just takes the right circumstances to start it off.

    I don't blame myself. I blame the medical industry for turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to these possible/probable causes or triggers.

    My wife had major trauma and complained afterwards of pain, and it was just brushed off as being from the "sore ribs". If worker's comp doctors just checked her out again a couple of months later maybe they could have caught this in time to save her.

    I've heard 10 other stories of people getting hurt and then developing cancer in the same area. There are no coincidences! Everything happens for reasons.
  • inkblot
    inkblot Member Posts: 698 Member
    #6
    Not sure this will be
    Not sure this will be helpful but I have a friend who fell and hit her head several years ago. No major damage on tests, but found what they said was a mild "concussion". Well about 8 months later, she developed dizzy spells and began passing out. Back for more tests, etc.. What was initially diagnosed as a "concussion", was actually a malignant tumor in her brain! The new tests were compared to the older tests, for confirmation that it had been there all along...Was never a "concussion" in reality. Lesion was in the very same location, same shape, only a bit larger. She underwent treatment and is still with us and going strong today!
    Love, light & laughter,
    Ink
  • soccerfreaks
    soccerfreaks Member Posts: 2,788 Member
    #7
    FlDino said:

    I believe as some say, we
    I believe as some say, we all have cancer inside us. Just takes the right circumstances to start it off.

    I don't blame myself. I blame the medical industry for turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to these possible/probable causes or triggers.

    My wife had major trauma and complained afterwards of pain, and it was just brushed off as being from the "sore ribs". If worker's comp doctors just checked her out again a couple of months later maybe they could have caught this in time to save her.

    I've heard 10 other stories of people getting hurt and then developing cancer in the same area. There are no coincidences! Everything happens for reasons.

    The important thing is to
    The important thing is to try to understand cancer as the doctors and scientists do (or better, if you can, at which point you can enlighten them and all of us, as you are trying to do herein but without the understanding). Notions of conspiracy and bad doctors usually point to a significant misunderstanding of the level of knowledge we now have regarding the disease, along with a significant misunderstanding of the nature of the disease.

    "Major trauma" simply does not cause cancer, no matter what or whom we want to blame. From a simple statistical standpoint, how many people got kicked in the testicles before developing prostate cancer? How many people got kicked in the butt before finding they had rectal cancer? How many people got punched in the chest before acquiring lung cancer? How many people had their breasts beat up before finding out they had breast cancer?

    The numbers do not correlate, I would venture to say.

    Looking for something of the sort is seeking the proverbial straw in the haystack, perhaps a way to explain what you cannot otherwise rationalize.

    Cancer is tragic for both the person that has it and the people that have to care for him or her, and it frequently leads to greater tragedy, the loss of a loved one. But none of this is reason to invent something that makes it all easier to understand.

    I'm frankly not sure why you would state "I don't blame myself." I find that curious. You are certainly not to blame unless you force-fed your wife cigarettes or made her eat asbestos or something of the sort. If you are trying to exculpate yourself and your own smoking from responsibility, well, that is a touchy subject. But even if that is the case, you are not totally to blame, although you might have, quite honestly, played a part (but how could you have known?).

    Please lighten up on the hyperbole and the conspiracy theories. A simple mind like mine gets all agitated and wants to go paint the shed in my college colors, and my wife has said No.

    Take care,

    Joe
  • m-star
    m-star Member Posts: 441
    #8
    inkblot said:

    Not sure this will be
    Not sure this will be helpful but I have a friend who fell and hit her head several years ago. No major damage on tests, but found what they said was a mild "concussion". Well about 8 months later, she developed dizzy spells and began passing out. Back for more tests, etc.. What was initially diagnosed as a "concussion", was actually a malignant tumor in her brain! The new tests were compared to the older tests, for confirmation that it had been there all along...Was never a "concussion" in reality. Lesion was in the very same location, same shape, only a bit larger. She underwent treatment and is still with us and going strong today!
    Love, light & laughter,
    Ink

    I ASKED MYonc about trauma
    I ASKED MYonc about trauma causing cancer and she said no.S o my previous onc before he retired AND my breast consultant! (yes i asked them all seperatly as i have a hard time believing docs!)

    A trauma to,lets say, the breast can cause a lump of fat necrosis but not cancer.

    Often when somebody suffers a trauma at a certain site in their body,that part of the body is inspected closely after the trauma. Usually,anything that is found was already there and it was only found due to the close monitering from the trauma. The trauma wasn't the cause.

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