Gen X & Millennial Cancer?! #comedy

[Rozilla]

The stress of all these "unprecedented" times doesn't help either 😭

[boomerjamify]

Late gen X er here, had stage two uterine cancer at 42. Will be 2 years cancer free in 10 days. Thankfully it was caught early!!

[jussumguy]

I'm Gen z but I used to be an avid kid cuisine enjoyer when I was like 10 and that meat was definitely off.

[ladyviridian]

"ice cream in a toilet paper roll" that is the best description ever! I love this guy!

[Phony]

Jokes on cancer. I was going to die anyway. You can't fire me, I quit. You can't infect me, I'm dead.

[BIGBOSS]

X and millennials: "We're here for a good time. Not a long time"

[AngelEmCuti]

Got cancer when I was 24. Been cancer-free for 8 years now😊

[micmen]

I do think our lifestyles play a role, but so do all the chemicals and plastics in everything nowadays. I also wonder if our technology is catching cancer faster, too.

[chimoshishifu]

Gen X here and this is sooo true. They sent 1 memo out in the 80s saying the barrels they’d put into the garbage dump near us was leaking into the river which fed into most of outlet ground wells. None of our community got “city” water until the mid-2000s. A lot of the girls I grew up with have had reproductive cancers. I’m the lucky one, nothing yet.

[jamiea]

"Ice cream in a toilet paper tube." That got me! actual LOL over here. love it.

[andybanan]

Intereating that the cocaine generation critiques the alcoholism generations. Lmao

[karlaa]

As Gen X I felt that "Figures." in my SOUL.

[ShizuruRavenRobin]

😂 the meeting the kids cuisine was really strange was it that I was up here thinking maybe it was the lead in the lunchables 💀

[e.blue]

Y'all know Teflon is still trying to deny that the stuff flaking off of their skillets when we cooked has any kind of cancer connections. Teflon was real popular back in the day.

[morrisahj]

The whiskey/alcohol and cigarettes 😭😭 lol that purple ketchup throwback made me shudder 😖😂

[alex_gal]

My mom's a GenX and she's in remission from her breast cancer. She had stage 3 breast cancer when she was 37, and the doctor tried to tell her she was too young to have it. That was in June of 2021.

She got a second opinion and it turned out to be the worst type of breast cancer you could get. Very fast and extremely aggressive.

Had she waited like the first doctor told her to, she would've been dead by Christmas.

Edit: my parents were born in the early 80s, and we don't count them the way everyone else does by that weird cutoff date in the middle of the 90s, so my parents have always referred to themselves as gen xers for being 80s babies, and millennials are born in the 90s, and I consider myself a Gen Z because I was born in the early 2000s.

I was taught that that's how the timeline cuts off after every 10 years for each generation.

Also, my mother had found a lump and that's what caused her to want to get a mammogram and that's when the doctor told her she was too young for breast cancer.

Immediately after she got that second opinion, the other doctor not only did a full mammogram, the doctor, who was a woman, took out a piece of the tumor and tested it and that's how we found out it was stage 3 breast cancer.

Shortly after my mom found out that it was in fact cancer and that she wasn't crazy at 37 to think that maybe that tumor has been something more, the male doctor who gave her that first opinion of "you're too young" retired.

[ArtOfShannonLee]

I had Cancer! I was born in ‘96, on the cut off between Z & Millennials. But I don’t smoke or drink excessively; Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is just a freak thing you can get in your 20s. I’m in remission now but only because the cancer was FOUND. Listen to your bodies and if somethings feels wrong, go to the doctor and insist on ultrasounds and/or biopsies. If the doctor seems reluctant you can say, “okay, then please make a note that my request for that test has been denied at this time.” The fear of a paper trail of their ineffectiveness coming back to bite them will usually make a GP sit up, pay attention and order the damn test. 😂 My cancer showed no lumps or anything like that but when I raised my arms above my head there was a slight tightening in my throat which made it awkward to breathe. I also noticed it was harder to swallow pills. Fortunately, the GP I saw took those symptoms seriously, because it turns out I had a 10cm tumour there, chillin on top of my heart! 😳 I also had several smaller ones near my collar bones. Listen to your bods as best you can.

[mrgopnik]

It’s related to general stress and depression caused by unsatisfactory life, abusive work and hopelessness.

[dermaspaceSC]

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the lifetime of microplastics lol

[TheVeggiekat]

I’m Gen X and we grew up in the shadow of the dying steel mills. All the men that worked in those mills probably would have had cancer if they didn’t die young from heart attacks