Here’s a reason I might have gotten cancer, I used: plastics with phalates and PCBs, pesticides, herbicides, fire retardant items, non stick pans, cars with carbon monoxide emissions, photo sensitive chemicals, hair color, hair straightener (okay, dumb), formaldehyde nail products, food dye, gas stove, shampoos/conditioners/creams with additives and benzene, dry cleaned clothes, used air fresheners, candles, oven cleaner, VOCs in new carpet, held thermal paper receipts, and ate charred/fried food acrylamide/HCA. I also worked in buildings with asbestos, lived in big congested cities, and breathed in campfire smoke. Just a short list of some of the carcinogens.
Oh, and, yo-yo dieted most of my life.
Even Claude couldn’t figure out which of these caused my cancerous cells.
@triciaot Thanks, this is a great reminder for everyone of the environmental factors we may not even remember being exposed to! Many of these I was exposed to also; but added in was likely exposure to Nuclear radioactive releases & fallout in the 40's & 50's in my childhood in WA state, pesticides when gardening like Roundup, etc. I think my heredity from my Grandmother who got BC around age 70 was a big factor, but environmental factors may have caused changes so that I got it much earlier the first time, age 43. No genetic mutations show up in testing however.