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For those with pancan, did you drink lots of Diet Coke or Coke?
I am very curious about finding out why people are getting pancan in what seems like record numbers.
My mom drank Coke daily she did up until she died of pancreatic cancer and it wasn’t hereditary. So for 45 years that’s what she did. I on the other hand drank Diet Coke for at least 20 years as a way to get energy I didn’t like coffee so would swing through McDonald’s daily and get Diet Coke. I then realized in my late forties early 50s how horrible it is for you and switched to water. I was so addicted it took like 2 yrs to be free of wanting a Diet Coke.
So in my heart I believe drinking Coke did a number on my pancreas and my moms. I want to help others if this is true. I am a very healthy person. Ate healthy exercised daily was never ever over weight. Never drank a lot never smoked. If you want please let me know what your history is with Coke or Diet Coke. It will help me understand this. Thanks!
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Don't know if this will help but anyway, I'm 54 male not a big coke drinker but earlier this year after working in the sun all day ( Australia) and forgot to bring a drink the home owner offered me a drink ( coke) after skulling the small can had pain in about 10 minutes and next day was diagnosed with pancreatitis and had 3 more attacks since now chronic. No alcohol either .I swear to this day it was the coke that set it off
I rarely drink soda, and never diet soda. No history of pancreatic cancer in my family but we do have a BRCA 2 mutation, however, when I was tested for this I think it was 15 years ago, I was told I didn't have the mutation. I might revisit that, with siblings with breast and colon cancer at young ages and uncles, grandfather with stomach, liver and prostate cancers. None of them drank coke or diet coke either.
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1 ReactionNever drank sodas of any kind except a handful of times a year.
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I have tried to reconcile when my somatic mutations kicked in and why.
I believe it goes back to disaster recovery missions I do, as a volunteer, mostly on flooded homes that exposed me to mold and probably asbestos. Even with a mask on. Just my guess. But I do always have a Diet Coke with a lime when I fly somewhere. And I do love to bake-and taste!
My wife was diagnosed at the age of 77 with PC. She never was a big coke/diet coke drinker. Seems unlikely connection.
Diagnosed age 55. Stopped drinking soda at age 20. Never used sugar since age 10. BRCA2 gene.
I personally know patients that had very poor diet and nutritional habits that included consuming processed foods, regular and diet soda and were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Some were normal body mass and some were obese. Poor diet and obesity are associated with pancreatic cancer as risk factors.
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2 ReactionsSome current research on sugar and pancreatic cancer, although I don't see a definite indication that high sugar intake affects this mechanism.
“The researchers discovered that pancreatic tumors take advantage of a natural protective mechanism used by healthy cells. Under normal circumstances, cells display a sugar called sialic acid on their surface to signal to the immune system, “don’t harm me.”
The team found that pancreatic tumors misuse this system by attaching the same type of sugar to a surface protein known as integrin α3β1. This sugar-coated protein can then bind to a receptor on immune cells called Siglec-10, effectively delivering a misleading signal that tells immune cells to stand down.”
https://scitechdaily.com/new-antibody-treatment-reawakens-immune-system-to-fight-pancreatic-cancer/
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