Gen X, millennials face higher risk of 17 cancers than older generations

lichtmetzger , 4 hours ago

Two of my coworkers in their early 20’s got it. One of them didn’t make it. It’s so fucking sad…

return2ozma OP , 4 hours ago

Do you know what kind of cancer it was?

lichtmetzger , 4 hours ago

Breast cancer

Lost_My_Mind , 5 hours ago

Cancer survivor here. Wasn’t even 30 when I first got cancer.

return2ozma OP , 4 hours ago

Glad you’re still with us!

LainTrain , 4 hours ago

What cancer was it? Glad you’re still around

Lost_My_Mind , 3 hours ago

Don’t downvote this guy. He’s just asking a simple question.

It was colon cancer, and I neglected the symptoms because I figured “what 28 year old gets cancer???”

Turns out an increasing number of people, actually.

dubyakay , 3 hours ago

What were the symptoms though that you didn’t heed?

Lucky you survived. How old are you now (ball park range) and how do you feel it has affected your life?

Lost_My_Mind , 2 hours ago

Weight gain without any increase in food intake. I gained something like 100lbs in 10 years, and then shed it in 1 year after I had surgery.

Blood in the stool.

Getting winded going up stairs/hills.

Being pale.

I was raised by a narcisist who never took me to the hospital, or dentist. So I was just used to walking it off. Finally my sister saw me at christmas and said “Holy hell!!! You look like shit!” And I thought she was just being an ass. But then she INSISTED I go to the doctor. And they took a blood sample, and refused to believe that I walked into the hospital on my own. Theres a number that measures your blood count. A healthy male of my age/size should have been in the 14-18 range. Any less than 6 is considered at risk for immediate death. I was 4.48. They said I should have been so weak that I should have died long ago from any amount of exercise. Even walking.

Here I was doing work pushing two wheelchairs at once. Sometimes 1,200 pounds at once.

reallykindasorta , 1 hour ago

Damn, glad you lived to tell the tale