Why are more and more Americans losing their hair and getting cancer?

Are we being exposed to toxins in the atmosphere that we are not aware of causing all the cancer and hair loss in many women too?? Healthy people without a history of cancer in their family are getting cancer, women are losing a lot of hair too and men at younger ages.Why are more and more Americans losing their hair and getting cancer?
I think its all the man-made chemicals in perscription drugs or preservatives in food...

My husband's mom just got diagnosed with breast cancer and she has lived the most healthiest life possible! The doctor finally realized it was because of a perscription drug that the DOCTOR himself perscribed...

Stay away from man-made anything, its un-natural and always has side effects.Why are more and more Americans losing their hair and getting cancer?
There are cancer agents in almost everything now adays. Americans eat alot of processed foods and we put things on the veggies and in the food we feed the animals to keep away insects and diseases. And even tho our veggies, fruits and meats are some of the safest in the world I think they are finding out these things are causing cancer in people. Plus the chemcials in the air and where we work. The best way to try to stay healthy is to eat what God made and try to stay away from the processed foods. you can't avoid them totally cause they are everywhere but you can avoid what you can.
The losing hair thing, I';m not sure about. If you are talking about when someone gets cancer, they lose their hair, that is from the chemotherapy, not the cancer, that causes that. Not relating to cancer, but some women experience a ';male pattern baldness'; type symptoms, as they get older, due to hormonal changes in their bodies.

One reason people are ';getting cancer'; more is that we are ';detecting it'; quicker and earlier than we did years ago. Back in the turn of the century, people died of cancer all the time, but nobody knew what it was. Now, people are getting screened earlier, tested and we are catching it in the early stages, which gives the impression that there is more cancer out there.

Honestly, we are in the healthiest, best time of the human race. As negative as some people would like to paint the picture for the world and health problems, would you like to go to a doctor, if you could, back in 1909 or 2009?
More and more Americans ( and so many others ) are getting exposed to pollutants, either in the air or in food, and the net effect of this is an increase in cancer rates. Hair loss is just another sign of the toxic environment. More people now than in earlier times are on prescription drugs, both for cancer and for other conditions, and hair loss along with immune suppression are two of the many side effects of these meds. Cancer is an industry, so more doctors are making diagnoses now then they were decades ago. Disease prevention is a dirty word to orthodox medicine, it just doesn't bring in enough profits.
Hair loss has nothing to do with cancer, so that is totally irrelevant. There is a side effect with some types of chemotherapy that causes the temporary loss of hair, but it all grows back. As for your other comments, no one knows what 'causes' cancer. There are over 200 different types that can affect. No one knows why one person will get cancer while hundreds of other people will not . . so it isn't toxins or the environment 'causing' cancer or we would all get it. No one knows why a healthy non smoker will suddenly get lung cancer . . or why a life long smoker will never even develop a cancer. So there is nothing predictable about who will get cancer and who will not . . and there is no way to prevent it.



Cancer is an ancient disease . . it can be found in the fossilized remains of ancient humans, it can be found throughout recorded history . . long, long before pollution or 'toxins in the atmosphere' . . ancient humans living in a 'pure' world, with good clean diets still got cancer.



ACS: The history of cancer

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/conten



Perhaps you are looking at the situation in the wrong way . . prior to about forty or fifty years ago people who got cancer just died without any type of effective treatment. The ancient Egyptians even mention ';There is no cure';. What changed all this is not that more and more people are getting cancer, but more and more people are SURVIVING cancer because they are getting good treatment. You see more people with cancer because they are now living to 'tell the tale'.
Everyone of every race/ethnicity if going through this...however to answer your question it's not only genetics but also:



Our Diet

Our physique (or lack there of)
Preservatives, chemicals in our water, and population are causing many health issues.
I DONT KNOW TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING GIVES YOU CANCER
The entire premise of your question is a misunderstanding.



It is quite simply not true that more and more people are developing cancer, in America or elsewhere. Incidence rates of most cancers haven't increased significantly in the last few decades.



And cancer, as Panda has pointed out, is an ancient disease. It isn't a modern phenomenon which has coincided with modern day toxins.



The origin of the word cancer is credited to the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC), and the world's oldest documented case of cancer is from ancient Egypt, in 1500 BC. The details were recorded on a papyrus, documenting 8 cases of tumours occurring on the breast.



The oldest available specimen of a human cancer is found in the remains of skull of a female who lived during the Bronze Age (1900-1600 BC). The tumour in the woman's skull was suggestive of head and neck cancer.



And evidence of tumours has been found in the fossil remains of dinosaurs.



Modern chemicals, modern day processed foods, modern day medication - modern day anything else anyone wants to blame for cancer - weren't responsible for those cancers.



There are a number of reasons why cancer APPEARS to be more common these days.



The first, ironically, is better general health care; in the west at least, more people are living well into old age than ever before. Most cancers are associated with ageing and the majority of people diagnosed with cancer are over 60, so - more old people = more cases of cancer.



With modern diagnostic techniques and screening., cancers that would not have been spotted in the past are now found through routine screening.



And of course we hear more about cancer these days in the media. When we didn't have TV, or the internet cancer didn't get as much coverage as it does now. And people are more open about cancer, more willing to talk about it. As recently as 15 - 20 years ago, celebrities would have kept quiet about it if they had cancer; now they will talk about it openly and give interviews about their experience.



When my dad got cancer in the 1950s, his mother was really embarrassed because she associated cancer with dirt - I bet she didn't mention it to anybody she knew, as someone in her position would these days. In those days, and far more recently - many people mouthed the word cancer rather than say it out loud. Now people discuss it openly - so it appears it's more common.



And of course many, many more people survive cancer these days, so you're far more likely to meet peopel who have had cancer or are going through treatment for cancer.



Yes, cancer affects healthy people; it always has, healthy people are no less likely than unhealthy people to develop cancer. And family history has very little to do with it - fewer than 10% of all cancer cases are hereditary, another statistic that hasn't changed.



As for hair loss - that's unconnected to cancer, except in as much as some cancer patients have a treatment that causes hair loss.



I suspect I've lived a good few years longer than you have, and I haven't noticed an increase in baldness in women over the years, or a change towards men becoming balder younger - unless hair loss is caused by a condition like alopecia, it tends to be genetic.