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cassandra.harper@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, bakertd wrote:
Please excuse if this topic was discussed another time, but I am a new
subscriber to this group. Recent tv interviews with Paul McCartney reminded >> me about a question that I had when his wife Linda died, and that still
bothers me:
Linda was a vegetarian for over twenty years; she also did not have many of >> the known risk factors for cancer - she had children, she was slim, she
lived
an active meaningful life, she seemed to have a positive outlook on life,
without the stress of worrying about money, and it seemed that she did not >> even expose herself to carcinogenic dyes in cosmetics. Yet, as we all know, >> Linda McCartney died of Breast Cancer!
Does her death from cancer cause doubt as to the anti-cancer protective
value
of a vegetarian lifestyle? Has anyone discovered what really did cause Linda >> McCartney's cancer? Was she a cigarette smoker? Could it have been marijuana >> use? Or radiation from mammograms? (Because I have never done these things, >> I
would feel "safer" if they were the real reasons.) I don't remember reading >> anything that answered questions about why Linda McCartney, of all people, >> got
cancer.
Thanks, and I don't mean to offend anyone, but as I said, these questions
have
concerned me for a long time.
TDB
Its all speculative but she probably was genetically predisposed to it.
...risk factors are just that: factors which compound statistical risk observed in large data sets, but in the end even the healthiest person in
the world can be bumped by a cosmic ray just-so and that one bit of
defective DNA does the rest...
...you roll your dice, you take your chances...
...m...
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