Breast Cancer Mystery Frustrates Scientists: Electric Light Just Latest Of Many Suspects

Hartford Courant ^ | February 6, 2005 | William Hathaway

[Still Thinking]

How about stress? We certainly have plenty of it, and perhaps breast cancer is particularly sensitive to it.

[freebilly]

Abortion....

[rellimpank]

--living long enough to get it may be part of the explanation for "developed" world vs. the third world--just like all cancers.

Not many people died of cancer a two hundred years ago--plague, pneumonia, infections, etc., got them first---

[Crazieman]

They won't touch that connection with a thousand foot pole.

[Viking2002]

Oh, the enviroNazi crowd is going to glom onto this one like buzzards on a squashed armadillo. Electricity - the energy that drives the 'evil capitalist machine' - is killing people. Let's ban it, and go back to how Mother Earth intended Her furry little human animals to live - running around naked in harmony with nature.

I can see it coming.

[small voice in the wilderness]

News to me. I've never even heard of Electric Light Abortions. If you get my drift...

[spetznaz]

True. That is one of the greater differences between the developed world and the developing world. Stress levels here are just too high, and more importantly nigh constant. In the developing world they may have their own stress levels, but they are never always at full blast.

Thus i'd agree. Continuous stress must be a major factor. It has been shown that constant stress can mess up the body faster than chain smoking ever could.

I'd have to say diet is another issue. But continuous high stress has to be numero uno.

[rellimpank]

--and what they neglect to mention is the average life expectancy of twenty five or so---

[dalereed]

This is nothing but a long winded plea for government research money. Their last grant must have run out.

[freebilly]

http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/The_Link.htm

Hmmmm..., for some reason I can't use html to link to the above URL. Odd....

[rottndog]

Ditto!

[freebilly]

The truth is just a little too hard to handle....

[freebilly]

News to me. I've never even heard of Electric Light Abortions. If you get my drift...

Good one.

[Strategerist]

The breast cancer rates differ greatly even taking life expectancy into account.

[Lazamataz]

News to me. I've never even heard of Electric Light Abortions. If you get my drift...

Electric Light Orchestra? Check.

Electric Light & Power, Inc.? Check.

Electric Light Abortions? Nope.

[jocon307]

THis is interesting. My mom in law had breast cancer, and she worked the night shift for years as a nurse.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

It's all the stuff in our environment: pesticides, cleaning products, bleach, furniture polish, outgassing of carpets, car exhaust. Additional factors for women: makeup, makeup remover, hair dye, nail polish, nail polish remover. Other factors for women: Women spend more time in the home, and do more cleaning (using an array of toxic products). Women are also more "delicate" than men - with smaller muscles, lighter frames, different anatomy. Anything toxic in the environment is going to hit us harder. (For example, women can't drink as much alcohol as men.) As an added "bonus", women have every vitamin and mineral depleted from their bodies at childbirth, leaving them physically vulnerable.

[billorites]

"Women are also more "delicate" than men - with smaller muscles, lighter frames, different anatomy."

Professor Summers? That you?