Top 2 Contributors To Pediatric Cancers

1 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker highlights that the CDC has identified geographic "hot zones" across the United States where cancer rates, particularly pediatric cancers, are significantly higher than surrounding areas. The speaker attributes these clusters to environmental toxicity and suggests that children developing cancer in these regions may be experiencing epigenetic triggers caused by toxic exposures, possibly including drug exposures affecting parents before conception. The narrative emphasizes that these mechanisms differ from those typically seen in adult cancers, underscoring a concern that environmental and parental factors are driving elevated pediatric cancer incidence in these hot zones.

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Look at the CDC has these hot zones for cancer around the U.S., and they plot them on maps, and they're all because of environmental toxicity. And a lot of the cancers in those hot zones are pediatric cancers. So the hot zone, by definition, has X number more cancers than everybody around it, right? But it's also X number more pediatric cancers than you would see. And what we often see with children who develop various cancers is through obviously no fault of their own; they're more likely to have this. Collusion of unfortunate epigenetic triggering that goes on due to, you know, due to toxicity and maybe some remote drug exposure to the mother or father and all these other things that a lot of adult cancers, it doesn't work quite the same way.