How Old Is Cancer?

How OLD is cancer? I couldn’t fit this into my longer video about cancer treatment, but it’s fascinating.

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[Dotexclamationmark]

Reading an ancient language that says "there is no treatment" is the building blocks of a good horror film

[henchman]

"there is no treatment" gotta be the scariest shit 💀

[crestfire]

"there is no treatment" sent shivers down my spine

[Mark-xffe]

The doctor recognising there is no treatments is actually really smart. Most doctors of the time would come up with crazy theories that had no evidence

[psyffee]

Cancer in and of itself is just a cell mutation that causes unregulated cell division, so cancer would probably be about as old as multicellular organisms are.

[neelanshguptaa]

Everyone here dwelling on “There is no treatment”, but it’s “Most people didn’t live long enough to get cancer” that gets me.

[Daltem]

Average age wasn't 35, unless you include child mortality

If you live to ~10, you can make it to your 60's

[Rosa-xgtb]

I think the larger contributor here is the fact that it’s really difficult to detect cancer without access to modern knowledge and technology

[br-ken_rec-rd]

Lost many important people in my life to cancer. I hope one day we find a cure.

[rc_]

I had cancer and beat it when I was 13 and it’s been 10 years since I have. So I’m thankful for modern cancer treatments

[Carey]

I was diagnosed at 14 & was paralyzed from the waist down & told I might never walk again. I’m so thankful for chemo, radiation & surgery that saved my life. I’m living on borrowed time & should’ve died many times over! I suffer from severe nerve pain/CRPS pain thanks to the tumor attaching itself to my spine. Thankfully I can walk with a cane now, over 20 years later. Cancer sucks!

[postwick]

It's frightening how many people think that when we discovered and described it is the same as when cancer first happened.

[samriiip]

Thank you Natalie Portman for telling us about the history of cancer

[Justice]

I’m a university student, and we learned about cancer treatments pre-anaesthesia - I’m pretty sure me and every other person in the room was like “yeah no, I’ll just die thanks”

[postwick]

Average life span was low because child mortality was high. People who made it out of childhood lived past their 30s. Average life span is very misunderstood.

[jessicastanisich]

We’ve also observed dinosaur bones with telltale signs of cancer- pretty amazing to think of it in that time scale.

[augusthoglund]

This is exactly why increased use of seatbelts is linked to higher rates of cancer deaths

[Daltem]

The 35 age expectancy is brought down by extreme child mortality

If you make it past 10, you'll probably live to your 60's

[beeboop]

Thats the issue with alot of mental illnesses today and people saying "its just a trend these things never used to exist". They've always existed, we just never had the means or ressources to diagnose it

[shoomboom]

"there is no treatment" man!! that was probably devastating news for someone so many years ago...