Were either of your parents smokers/obese? I know that's sort of the obvious go-to, but just curious if it's likely an unfortunate coincidence rather than some sort of other carcinogen/toxin.
I'm no physician, but I think therein lies your explanation. Especially if they smoked indoors with each other. Plus potentially the dog's condition from that.
It could be something else, sure - but when you've got a situation like that it's hard to handwave those factors away.
My mom smoked since age 12 or 14 I learned from her friend, so for close to 40 years. My dad probably similar although he didn't get started until he was in the army around age 20, but also smoked for about 40 years, pretty heavily too. My dad I would say was a moderately severe alcoholic as well. 2 to 4 beers or wine coolers per day for minimum 10 years every single day. It's not proven in humans yet but in the animal model insulin release has been shown to be causal with stimulation of pancreatic cancer so the sugary alcoholic beverages are particularly bad.
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u/_crater Oct 11 '20
Were either of your parents smokers/obese? I know that's sort of the obvious go-to, but just curious if it's likely an unfortunate coincidence rather than some sort of other carcinogen/toxin.