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According to a new study, one in five new cancer cases concerns someone who had the disease before. They found that such secondary (recurrent) cancer cases are now on the rise.
It also found that the number of cases of second cancers that are not a recurrence but an entirely new type has increased by a staggering 300% since the 1970s.
In the same time frame the number of people who had cancer for the first time rose sharply, by up to 70%.
The world of Western medicine continues with its usual explanations, or rather the absence of them, claiming that they are not aware of the reasons for the increase, while pointing to the fact that people live longer and are therefore more at risk of disease.
But living into your eighties or nineties should not guarantee that you will get cancer.
Genetics is indeed a factor, but when it comes to determining your risk of getting cancer, other influences may contribute more than your age — such as your environment, the food you eat, the water you drink, the vaccines you receive, and even the medical treatment you are given.
Ongoing research continually shows that the risk of developing cancer is hugely influenced by pesticides, heavy metals and hormone mimics such as bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S (BPS), as well as other environmental pollution.
Those of you who are unlucky enough to have been diagnosed with cancer again may perhaps blame the very drugs you received to treat your first cancer.
Do cancer drugs cause more cancer?
The American Cancer Society document titled “Secondary Cancer in Adults” admits that recurrent cancers can be caused by the cancer treatment itself.
“Treatment with radiation was recognized many years ago as a potential cause of cancer,” says the American Cancer Society.
They also admit that most types of leukemia, including acute myeloblastic leukemia (AML), chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), can all be caused by radiation.
Most cancers caused by radiation treatment develop within a few years after irradiation, with the disease peaking five to nine years after radiation.
Similarly, various types of chemotherapeutic drugs are also associated with different types of secondary cancers. The most common are myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and AML (a type of leukemia). ALL (leukemia) is also associated with these cancer drugs.
Cancer drugs cause hundreds to thousands of cases of new cancer in Slovakia each year
To help you understand better, MDS (myelodysplastic syndrome) is diagnosed in roughly 200 people in our country each year.
In addition to radiation and chemotherapy, other causes include toxins present in tobacco smoke and high levels of industrial-type chemicals such as benzene, a carcinogenic petroleum product that is widely used in plastics, synthetic fibers, rubber lubricants, resins, dyes, detergents, medicines and pesticides.
Nearly another 300 people per year are diagnosed with AML (acute myeloid leukemia), with more than half of those cases ending in death, and approximately 100 people are diagnosed each year with ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia).
That means that at least 600 cancer occurrences can be directly attributed to cancer drugs.
Determining how many people die from cancer drugs is extremely difficult because the cause of most deaths is listed as cancer and not the treatment.
Do not forget that the cancer industry is one of the most lucrative businesses in the world, which generated $100 billion last year.
Its profits are expected to grow by about 8% annually over the next three years, because cancer will be diagnosed in an ever increasing number of people and more and more will be treated for it.
