3 ms·
I don't think the "driving" hypothesis is silly, but it should also be pretty easy for a study to correlate driving habits to cancer rates. Has that never been
by JohnBooty 3y ago
I don't think the "driving" hypothesis is silly, but it should also be pretty easy for a study to correlate driving habits to cancer rates. Has that never been studied?
Anecdotally, I just don't see many people driving with their arms hanging out of the window, or even with the windows down any more. Cars are all sealed up and climate-controlled these days.
Also anecdotally, I don't see people walking around with lopsided tans, although I realize we're talking about small differences here.
Also worth noting that auto glass blocks a significant portion of UV rays.
From the article:
Stranger still, melanoma most commonly
affects the hip, thighs and trunk, which
are areas of the body protected from the
sun.
Could slightly increased sun exposure on one's left arm and result in increased cancers elsewhere on one's left side? Seems unlikely to me, but I am not an oncologist.
- mannykannot 3y ago> Could slightly increased sun exposure on one's left arm and result in increased cancers elsewhere on one's left side? I'm no doctor, but I wondered if metastasis via the lymphatic system might be a possible explanation. From my utterly cursory search, I get the impression that the lymphatic network is a common route of metastasis, but while it might spread melanoma from the arm to the trunk (and perhaps preferentially to the same side), it seems to go the wrong way to be the vector from there to the hips and thighs. There's also the question of whether a melanoma that has spread to the lymph nodes is still counted as an instance of melanoma, and the most I can say about that is that one paper I skimmed seemed to be using the term in that manner. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7729077/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7729077/