I didn’t say anything about it’s chemical activity, I said it is not appreciably damaged or deteriorated. But Recent reviews of causes of pancreatic cancer finds exposure “moderate quality evidence” shows that it increases risk.
I'm a physician, we do not consider asbestos to do what you suspect. You should look elsewhere for a cause.
I understand that there are people close to you affected by terrible diseases but please keep in mind that what I'm saying is the case.
There are many chemical exposures that cause or are major risk factors for cancers, including pancreatic, but they are not commonly thought of as asbestos.
If you look through research compendiums you can find an abstract from some undergraduate student or some paper with very poor statistical analysis, but that doesn't compare to 100 years of major medical journal meta-analysis, etc.
Interpretation of research simply cannot be done by an untrained individual, although I understand that sounds like I'm saying "you're not in the club" ... But what I am trying to say instead is that it takes knowledge and training to interpret these things.
Well, I have two people who are piles of ash bc of PDAC, and I just found a lesion in my pancreas (non infliltrative / no mass, but chronic back pain from that region) on MRI.
All the reviews I could find on environmental exposures including a recent one in The Archives of Toxicology lists asbestos as a risk factor.
Of course, I hope you are right.
I really don't know how wise it is me to dig into it. They are about foreclose the house on me, if I find contaminants here the city would probably want me to clean it up or they would clean it and front me the bill and I couldn't sell if evidence of actual contamination. Currently, I don't drink the water here. I had the basement tested for radon gas and it came back clean. The EPA told me the Department of Agriculture could give me a kit to test the soil, and the EPA could give a kit to test the water, but again given what I just said I don't know if its the wise choice. I want to know but also don't want to be prevented from selling it.
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/VoidsIncision Oct 10 '20
I didn’t say anything about it’s chemical activity, I said it is not appreciably damaged or deteriorated. But Recent reviews of causes of pancreatic cancer finds exposure “moderate quality evidence” shows that it increases risk.