August 18, 2023 : Safety and Health Committee
© 安岡喜晴 (JoyShine)
At a committee meeting, the topic of cancer came up.
A man said that his grandmother had a tingling sensation in her lower right abdomen, so she went for a checkup and was found to have metastatic liver cancer.
The colon was the source of the metastasis. She was told she had one month to live, and she died just after one month.
A woman said that her grandfather had recently been having difficulty swallowing food.
After a while his hand became numb, so he went for a checkup and found out that his lung cancer had metastasized to his brain.
One of the committee members asked me, "What is the difference between people who smoke a lot and get lung cancer and those who don't? "
I answered, "Mice have a short lifespan, so they die before they get cancer. If you smoke a lot, you will get lung cancer, but the time when you get it varies from person to person,
so those who did not get it died for other reasons before they got it," and he was convinced by what I said.