Metastatic liver cancer

I just read this Israeli study : Women working in labs more likely to get cancer by Yuval Azoulay. It says that:

the chances of a woman getting cancer
are 26 % higher among women who work in labs

Prof. Rennert could not point to a direct link between the high cancer rate and the fact that these women work in labs and said that the cause could be the socio-economic characteristics of these women.

In other words: statistics can prove anything. Grandmother and grandfather 20 years ago probably died of stomach cancer and colon cancer, yet there are no records so statistics could say: 20 years ago people didn’t die from cancer.

Working woman and cancer

Thanks to being a working woman: we do get noticed!

Why do we women get noticed?

• because we are competing for"male" jobs (not competing well as the high paid jobs are still in the men’s world)
• because we get cancers that can be removed (ugly not to say the least)

I already told you before: my best friend, my neighbour, my colleague a few days ago: all have (had) some kind of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. What do they have in common?

• they work hard
• they have no children

Cancer prevention gets mean!

We heard before : the chances of getting breast cancer rises when:

• women give birth to a small number of children,
• do not breast feed and
• give birth to their first child at a late age.

These characteristics are most common among educated and working women.

Is this another way of saying:

the chances of getting breast cancer become less when:

• women go breed like monkeys
• women start breastfeeding all their kids
• let’s make this world even more crowded
• women stop getting educated and working
• we just set the clock back 100 years ago

Oops, we don’t have statistics about whom died of cancer 100 years ago…

Yet 100 years ago:

• there were no pesticides accumulating in our body
• the air was fresh
• there was no Tchernobyl cloud affecting the whole world
• … do you get the point?

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