Is it true childhood trauma could cause cancer in adulthood

[Rana]

I saw a bunch of articles and many who believe this this article https://www.prb.org/resources/childhood-trauma-has-lifelong-health-consequences-for-women/

Childhood maltreatment as a risk factor for cancer: findings from a population-based survey of Canadian adults - BMC Cancer

Background Childhood maltreatment (CM) is an established risk factor for various mental and substance use disorders. This study adds to existing evidence that CM may also be a risk factor for cancer. Methods Based on data from a sample of 9783 men and 12,132 women from the 2012 Canadian...

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I hope this isn’t true not is scary but trying to fix my life all these years is hard enough now I have to worry that it could cause my worst nightmare I don’t even have words for how I feel about anything anymore I just feel like what point of anything anymore every second is torture and I just have nothing left in me to deal with anything

 

[Sweet T]

I think that having trauma in childhood may lead to risky behaviors like drug use or tobacco use for example. Those risky behaviors might lead to cancer. That is what I understand anyway

 

[Rana]

That’s what I thought it meant but I might have read this wrong but I thought it was saying even if you don’t do all this things associated as risk factors still a risk from the trauma

 

[MATD]

It’s probably best if you take articles like that with a grain of salt. There always needs to be peer review of such “ studies” to prove the findings. A lot of these articles are not factual and tend to prey on people’s fear to sell something or other. Another example I can give is coffee. I have seen it be declared cancer causing then retracted, caffeine harmful, but now lauded as healthy and beneficial. It’s always something or someone trying to influence the populations thinking on any giving subject. In my 63 years, I’ve seen a lot of influence driven propaganda on the population that changes the position more than a prostitute changes underwear. I’ve learned to take it all with a grain of salt and start thinking for myself using logic and my own observations. I refuse to be taken in by these “ fads” in the science world. Because that’s about what they amount to, ever changing information that keeps us glued to the news or tv or internet in fear. Live your life Rana, use your own power of discernment to do it, think for yourself, don’t let these soothsayers rob you of your own mental well being , cause that’s what it amounts to. Stealing your sanity, confidence and mental we being.

 

[Rana]

It’s probably best if you take articles like that with a grain of salt. There always needs to be peer review of such “ studies” to prove the findings. A lot of these articles are not factual and tend to prey on people’s fear to sell something or other. Another example I can give is coffee. I have seen it be declared cancer causing then retracted, caffeine harmful, but now lauded as healthy and beneficial. It’s always something or someone trying to influence the populations thinking on any giving subject. In my 63 years, I’ve seen a lot of influence driven propaganda on the population that changes the position more than a prostitute changes underwear. I’ve learned to take it all with a grain of salt and start thinking for myself using logic and my own observations. I refuse to be taken in by these “ fads” in the science world. Because that’s about what they amount to, ever changing information that keeps us glued to the news or tv or internet in fear. Live your life Rana, use your own power of discernment to do it, think for yourself, don’t let these soothsayers rob you of your own mental well being , cause that’s what it amounts to. Stealing your sanity, confidence and mental we being.

I want to not believe it you type childhood trauma everything comes up as studies saying it effects your health. A lot of people have had some form of childhood trauma I’m supposed to believe these articles that they all are at risk realistically it makes no sense I know but this is something supposed drs are saying is true I don’t know what to believe

 

[MATD]

Childhood trauma affects the mind and subsequently our health with endless stress. I’m 63 yo, I had childhood trauma as well as later in life too. I’ve also had anxiety and depression all my life, from childhood on. I’m relatively healthy with a good immune system. I have no medical issues as of now. That’s not to say I won’t have in the future. The older we get, the more likely we will develop medical issues, regardless of a childhood trauma. It’s just normal aging of the human body, it’s to be expected, especially given all the pollutants in this world and eating things we can’t pronounce the words of. It is the price we pay for living I guess. But to base your own well being on random articles written with no real substance to back them up is not healthy mentally. This is no different than numerology or tarot cards or palm reading. It messes with your mind and keeps you focused on those things instead of reality. Choose what you allow into your mind, especially right now, while you are so vulnerable. Choose to live a better way Rana. I had hoped you would get the books I recommended in acceptance. This method is definitely the way to recover from anxiety. You have to choose to make a difference for yourself by taking positive steps instead of loading your mind with things that are going to make you feel worse. I hope you choose better.

 

[roadtocalmness]

Its is true to some degree





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But if you had a lot of serious sunburns in childhood you might have higher risk for melanoma.

 

[Rana]

Childhood trauma affects the mind and subsequently our health with endless stress. I’m 63 yo, I had childhood trauma as well as later in life too. I’ve also had anxiety and depression all my life, from childhood on. I’m relatively healthy with a good immune system. I have no medical issues as of now. That’s not to say I won’t have in the future. The older we get, the more likely we will develop medical issues, regardless of a childhood trauma. It’s just normal aging of the human body, it’s to be expected, especially given all the pollutants in this world and eating things we can’t pronounce the words of. It is the price we pay for living I guess. But to base your own well being on random articles written with no real substance to back them up is not healthy mentally. This is no different than numerology or tarot cards or palm reading. It messes with your mind and keeps you focused on those things instead of reality. Choose what you allow into your mind, especially right now, while you are so vulnerable. Choose to live a better way Rana. I had hoped you would get the books I recommended in acceptance. This method is definitely the way to recover from anxiety. You have to choose to make a difference for yourself by taking positive steps instead of loading your mind with things that are going to make you feel worse. I hope you choose better.

I know I really want to have a good life I just don’t know how to fix it I got to read the books that you suggested but I feel like everything is just too much

 

[Jonathan123]

These articles have been the bane of my life! The blurb given in medication packs is another. Students in universities are given a project like the one mentioned here. They have no value whatsoever because the proportion of the population tested is minimal. They are simply exercises in gathering information and showing how clever they are. There have been so many examples of this that I gave up on them long ago. The causes of some cancers are known, but they are mostly physical like taking in harmful substances like nicotine. But the cause for the vast majority is still unknown and there has been so much speculation. Why oh why don't we stop reading these articles and Googling!! It's almost masochistic. We seem drawn like a magnet to negativity. But that's anxiety!!

 

[Cuchculan]

I think all studies are all useless. They look for people that have various things wrong with them. Be it cancer or anything else. They ask them some set questions. Then they give us a paper suggesting that, based on the answers they got, X and Y played a part in those people getting cancer. It is only too obvious they are looking for the same things to pop up more than once. Bit like blaming video games for shootings. Because somebody who killed a person played GTA a few times. I wouldn't pay any attention to the results of such studies.

 

[MATD]

I know I really want to have a good life I just don’t know how to fix it I got to read the books that you suggested but I feel like everything is just too much

The first thing you can do is exercise self discipline when it comes to what you allow into your head. Another thing you can do is research anxiety. Put your ability to google to better use. Go to this website “anxietycentre.com” and start your education on anxiety. It has lots of good, valuable information. This site charges about $50 a YEAR for complete access, but it still allows seeing a lot of info for free. Dust your book off, read and reread until you understand, baby steps are all that is necessary to begin, leave perfection at the door, it hinders the process. All the acceptance method requires is that you TRY, nothing more. Put your focus on the method and you, not what is going on in the world or what you read on the internet. If you are to recover, you have to make it happen, it won’t happen if you don’t try. You are the key to your own recovery and future. Be good to yourself, give yourself the gift of trying for you. No one can do it for you, it’s not possible, only you can make it happen. Choose yourself.

 

[Phillies Phan]

Rana, don’t give a seconds more thought to this. First, Jonathan is 100% spot on. I read that article very carefully. I looked at what they call the odds ratio. A 1.0 is baseline. When I’ve read articles like this on risk factors for a given cancer, you see very large odds ratios. For example, smoking and lung cancer is in the triple digits (100.0+ odds ratio). For things like obesity and heart disease you see numbers like 7.0 OR.

These numbers, from looking at the tables? Almost ever one is a 1 point something, like 1.3 or 1.4. That’s a minuscule increase in odds.

Next, I looked to see what cancers are they taking about? They mention one…one! That being cervical cancer, which is a cancer of young women with a history of many partners, and assuming the woman didn’t take Gardisil (spelled wrong, but vaccine to prevent CC).

Finally, read the numerous comments they make about the limitations of the study. My God why bother with all this based upon self reporting of health habits! How many people lie about smoking, being alcohol or drug dependent, etc? Many!

Such garbage. Lead as healthy a lifestyle as you are able to, and don’t read these studies made by students or researchers who are just trying to do so called studies, no matter how flawed, to earn themselves brownie points such as money, parchments, etc.

 

[Sweet T]

Rana. It is not written. You have agency over your life. You are not a statistic.

 

[MATD]

Rana I forgot to mention that Dr Weekes has videos on you tube. She has one that describes how to begin accepting your anxiety symptoms. Well worth the watch. She also has several other videos there, give it a go.