Kids and Cancer

[Whitefire13]

A few more… please refer back to other thread and I just chose a random few to set up here…

@boomer47

@MrDawn

I’m guessing it had something to do with nuclear disasters like Chernobyl.

Which your loving god permitted. Do try to avoid facile, knee jerk responses, there’s a good chap

Besides, bone and other cancers have been around for hundreds of years.

As ever, no religion has ever been able to explain the existence of suffering or evil. Especially those which involve children or animals.

@Get_off_my_lawn

@boomer47

Besides, bone and other cancers have been around for hundreds of years.

Hundreds? ITYM “…have always been around.” The ancient egyptians described cancer as a disease:

The earliest known descriptions of cancer appear in several papyri from Ancient Egypt. The Edwin Smith Papyrus was written around 1600 BC (possibly a fragmentary copy of a text from 2500 BC) and contains a description of cancer, as well as a procedure to remove breast tumours by cauterization, wryly stating that the disease has no treatment.

There is no reason to think cancers of different kinds have not been around for, like almost always, from long before humans developed to describe it.

@boomer47

My bad. I didn’t know so was being conservative, should have checked.

The information from that papyrus is fascinating. Not surprised that the Egyptians knew more than Hippocrates. Due to familiarity of the human body from embalming?

I think they did pretty well seeing they had no knowledge of germ theory . Honey is sterile ,so would be good to prevent infection.

It’s my understanding that the Egyptians also carried out quite sophisticated brain surgery. At that time and until Galen ca 170 bce , the function of the brain was not understood. The heart was considered the centre of thought and emotion.

" Around 170 BC, Roman physician Galen suggested the brain’s four ventricles (fluid-filled cavities) were the seat of complex thought, and determined personality and bodily functions. This was one of the first suggestions that the brain was where our memory, personality and thinking reside. "
Understanding the brain: a brief history - Queensland Brain Institute - University of Queensland.

@Andromeda

@MrDawn

I’m guessing it had something to do with nuclear disasters like Chernobyl.

People get cancer all the time, Chernobyl just made it worse. Apparently it’s causing “super thyroid cancer” in the offspring of survivors

ScienceDaily

Genetic effects of Chernobyl radiation

Researchers utilized genomic tools to investigate potential health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation, a known carcinogen, as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl accident. One study found no evidence that genetic changes associated with radiation…