Certain cancer rates for younger folks are up (e.g. colon cancer). That
one's a mystery.
However, longer life expectancy increases the odds of cancer later in
life too.
There is also better screening, so that is an unknown in terms of what
the actual "rate" is.
We had a friend who was diagnosed with prostate cancer when he was
around 75. Doc told us, the prostate cancer was not going to kill him.
Sure enough, he died almost 20 years later at the ripe old age of 94,
and no, the prostate cancer is not what got him in the end.
bp
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On 5/22/2025 8:56 AM, Dev wrote:
Is it just me or does it seem like cancer rates are rising? You’d
think with enough smart people in enough rooms, we’d have solved this
by now.
On May 22, 2025, at 6:24 AM, Cameron Crum <[email protected]> wrote:
I know I'm not the only Dilbert fan in the group, but this is kind of
sad.
Scott Adams, the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip, announced on
May 19, 2025, that he has metastatic prostate cancer that has spread
to his bones. He stated that he expects to live only "months" and
"sometime this summer," and that he is in constant, "intolerable"
pain, requiring a walker to move around.
Adams revealed his diagnosis on his YouTube show, "Real Coffee With
Scott Adams," after former President Joe Biden's office announced
that Biden also had prostate cancer. Adams said he decided to share
his own health news to "slide under" Biden's announcement and deflect
some of the public attention. He also mentioned that he had been
keeping his diagnosis private to avoid becoming "just the dying
cancer guy."
He stated that he has had time to process the diagnosis, get his
affairs in order, and say his goodbyes. As a California resident, he
also referred to the state's End of Life Option Act as "an option."
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