Why elderly and old ppl more vulnerable to cancer?!


Question: Why elderly and old ppl more vulnerable to cancer.?
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I have been a Psych nurse for 30 yrs and worked with the elderly and took a huge part of their care plan. It's not that they are old. Some of these people that are in their 80s and 90s did not consume a lot of chemicals when they were young because most of them grew their own food. Canned their own food, and chemicals 90 yrs ago were not as big a problem as it is today. They never saw the need to see a doctor unless they were very ill and had no choice. so for some of them, the cancer could have been there for years, then went dormant only resurface again. Remember, when someone has cancer, no matter what age, we never feel the first signs of cancer until if manifest itself in one form or another. Granted, with the elderly, they have a weakened immune system, but to be honest with you, I have seen more cancer in the young that the elderly. for example. I was diagnosed with breast cancer 2 yrs and that same year, 5 other members of my family were diagnosed as well with breast cancer, 2 of them were my nieces. My younger sister developed ovarian cancer, brain tumors, stomach cancer only to mention a few. My sister in-law died at 42 from breast cancer. Cancer knows no age limit. When it has the opportunity to attack, it will. From babies to the elderly. The elderly have more of a tendency to get pneumonia, flu etc because they are weak, but in 30 yrs, I did not see any more cancer in the elderly than I did in the young, In fact, I have seen more in the younger people. My brother died of brain and spinal cancer at 50, My nephew died last year at the age of 49 from lung cancer. See, cancer doesn't respect anyone, Hope that's not to confusing. Sometimes I really get off the track to make a point so forgive me if I ratteled on to much.Health Question & Answer

Your body is constantly regenerating. Each time a new cell is created there is a chance of a defect. Obviously the older you are, the more chances that has to offer. Often cancer can be aggravated by external sources. Although these sources are disputed, the older you are, the longer you have been exposed to them.Health Question & Answer

They have been affected by more chemicals than all of us throughout their entire life. Their bodies break down easier as they get older. The body simply begins to age and with that comes sickness and disease. There are no great wonders or secrets we do not about, this is life. How is it that the human body is able to cure a single cell, when one dies, a new one is formed. Mankind and doctors have been baffled by this question for centuries. Our genetics play a role in it as well. Age is the biggest factor and the immune system. It is not fair, why to older people get cancer more easily, well if we put all this in a nut shell we might have most of the question. But then ask your self this, why are there more yonger children dying form cancer than ever before .? The environment, what we have been exposed to because of big business , greed. the high demand for wood and fuel , today our children are suffering and will suffer the effects of a nightmare that is coming upon us.Health Question & Answer

It's what you put into your body, over time that becomes a good or a bad thing. When you are young, you do not typically think about health & you've gained habits for the rest of your life, which could be good or bad for you.

If you digestive track isn't working properly, or having to work too hard to digest dead foods (meats & processed foods, most anything white): then you body has been over worked & under paid & you will end up with cancer in your organs, or in your bones.

What most people do not know is that you body needs to eat live enzymes, which promotes healthy living habits for the rest of your life: if you know these things. What is live enzymes.? Fruits & vegetables, however you ought not to mix the two together in one sitting. It is preferable to eat one thing per sitting @ breakfast, or lunch, or dinner. Or to know what two things go together. While your body tries to digest one thing, it ends up with something else to digest & goes from one extreme, to another trying to digest all the food that enters your body. It is also better for your body if you drink liquids after you meal, as it makes it harder on your digestive system: if you chase your foods down with a drink: then your body has to work harder to process the foods, through your body, etc.......

It's not your family jeans that get you into bad health, it isn't who you are who gets you into trouble as much as the eating habits that you have acquired from your family & when you get older & set in your ways, it is harder to change your ways.

Doctors are practitioners & you are their Guinea pig. They have no preventive healthy methods of protecting you from old age, etc.......!! They (most) of them can't tell you how to keep your organs healthy, because Health classes aren't required, or @ least very little.

They wait until your organs go bad, then they tell you they have to cut it out: That is their answer, because they've not given the patient any preventive measures in regards to health & then removing the organ becomes the only answer. I knew of one lady, of whom the doctors have cut most every organ in her body out & the doctors told her, if we cut one more organ out: you will die.

UR organs are in your body for a purpose & some people do not realize this until it is too late & by then, it is to late to change their habits to healthy ones.

Although, we all die @ some point: You can prevent bad health & prolong your life & this way see less doctors. The doctor told my husband that he was the healthiest person that they had seen.Health Question & Answer

I'm neither elderly nor old and I got a brain tumor. Everyone has cells that can potentially turn cancerous. I guess the longer you live, the more chance you have of something going awry with your cell division. The people that I do know of getting cancer, are not elderly.Health Question & Answer

because there immune system arent up to speed thier defenses are weak and low and its just nature it also has to do with thier cells because as you know cancer is actually your own cells so when your own cells are weak there becomes the problemHealth Question & Answer

Many factors but 2 that stand out are lower immune systems and years of not taking care of themselves(eating right/vitamins/not exercising/smoking/over eating). Health Question & Answer

usually older people especially unhealthy ones are more accessible to getting also any disease Health Question & Answer

The longer you live the more likely you are to develop abnormal cell growths in your body.Health Question & Answer



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