I am 77 years old. My mother died of cancer when I was 12 years old. I took it personally but now I see that cancer has been around for millions and millions of years. It just happens. Nothing personal. Thank you Kayleigh.
They say cancer risk is high among pilots, I wonder if the radiation from the sun is to blame for the turtle and other creatures getting cancer ? Hmmmm ? I think there are many causes for cancer with humans but not these animals in their unpolluted living space !
Sorry about your Mum...my biggest hurdle with Cancer is when i was 16 my younger sister died of Leukemia, that was except for that a good year, Woodstock and the first man on the moon. I'm 70 in Jan and have lost many others to Cancer and dealt with it and moved on. My Sister's cry about still so many years later.....I mean CRY...I've been told by more than one gifted individule that it makes her sad and I believe your soul carries on and it's silly to mourn her like I do, I can't seem to stop. I don't know why I shared this but it wasn't to make your situation less important . Cheers
Thank you Kayleigh. I'm a cancer survivor and your research information adds a perspective I never thought about. Glad to hear that you are okay and simply regrouping. When you feel overwhelmed I suggest you pick up your kitties and relax. They'll make sure you stay on track and take care of you too. Be safe and be well. 😊
I am happy for you. My Grandfather died of cancer. Two of my uncles and an aunt have beaten it. Thank modern medicine. One had a tumor the size of a grapefruit removed from his lower back. Another had a mole the size of a palm. My aunt went through hell with breast cancer. She lost her hair. But... she's still sparky. Every time we speak, she's the same happy person. I love her with every atom of my being. She never gave up. Keep being you, and keep staying positive. Cancer sucks.
@@thedude2847thank you for your comment. The affliction wears you down in many ways. Sorry to hear your family has had to endure cancer. No fun at all to deal with. It's kind of Kayleigh to explore this devastating disease and take time to present information so we have a deeper understanding of cancer's evolution. All the best to you and yours.
I had no idea how old cancer is. I was so engrossed by this I googled it and watched your show a second time. Cancer is not something you catch, but is somehow genetically engineered into the body over the millenia, am I going off in a tangent. Over 240,000,000 years!! I read that plants and fishes get cancer. Sharks are resistant to cancer, something to do with their cartilage. Thank you Kayleigh for all your efforts. Please keep well young lady.
When I moved cities, I found myself getting lost all the time. One day I called my brother complaining of my lack of navigation skills, he said to me that I'm never lost, I'm just on an adventure. When ever mental health creeps in, I just remember those wise words
I’m a brain tumor survivor I was diagnosed with mine at the age of 34 and in runs in my family. My mother passed away at 36 from brain cancer, her sister currently has a brain tumor. I survived because given my family history I was hyper aware and when I got headaches that nothing stopped. I would not let doctors tell me they were just migraines. Anyone reading this if you don’t feel well listen to you body. It can save your life.
It's shocking to me that conditions with which one is born, such as Type 1 diabetes, are still claimed to be mysterious in origin, despite gestational diabetes being a well established malady. Obviously, a pregnant woman submitting to sugar cravings throughout the 9 months stands a chance of wrecking the child's pancreas. As for childhood leukemia, I couldn't say, but some combination of diet, environment, and lifestyle of the mother is surely relevant.
Frequent travel can become an art form. I used to travel for work and it could definitely become exhausting both physically and emotionally. Take care of yourself. I love your speech.
Hi Kayleigh, greetings from the edge of Doggerland, England, UK. I recently lost my Father to brain cancer (I thought he would live forever), it was and still is so hard to take onboard, it was the first time I had to deal with this cruel disease in my life. On a side note, I believe we don't always need science to prove how old something is, often common sense will do. ...... Car crashes are as old as cars, house fires as old as houses, genetic mutations are as old as genes, so cancer is probably as old as life itself. You mentioned feeling "burnt out", but please remember that a Phoenix has to burn before it can rise again. You ARE a Phoenix Kayleigh, you WILL rise again! Hugs Xx
I'm sorry to hear that you've lost people to cancer. That appears to be something that most of us have in common, sadly. You cover some very interesting topics. I've enjoyed your videos, and hope to see more in the future!
My mother has literally beaten cancer 7 times and is still going strong, Now I imagine her, A tiny lady aged 76 in a boxing ring beating up an ancient monster. :D
Thank you so much for this. Having lost people from cancer, it leaves a lot of questions. While this doesn't answer all of them, it does answer some. I still need to process all of the information, but part of me assume a lot of this had to do with the things we were doing to our planet. Those things might not help, but it was already a problem for ancient man and even the dinosaurs.
Lost both of my parents about three months apart to Cancer. Some ten years before that my younger sister lost her fight to Cancer. It's a horrible decease. It took me a good year before i wanted to be around people again when my parents died so I do understand your need for space to heal both soul and mind after such a lost. My God bless and keep you safe and you find a peaceful resolution to your needs.
This was a great presentation and quite accurate. I find it fascinating that cancer goes back all those millions of years. My father was a general practitioner (physician) and this brings me back to childhood when he explained what cancer is to me. We've learned so much since then (60 years ago) but his explanation is still pretty accurate. He would be amazed to find out how long cancer has actually existed. I find it fascinating that not only is cancer ancient, but that it existed far back along the human family tree. But I suppose it makes sense. My guess is that it may have been extant ever since multicellular life arose. Surely there were occasions back then where a cell started reproducing uncontrollably which, at base, is what cancer is. Again, thank you for an interesting, engaging presentation.
Yes, these are my thoughts exactly, and I'm a little stunned, honestly, that anyone would imagine cancer is NOT ancient. I mean, I'm far from an educated scientist, but I can't see how cancer can NOT be, in some sense, pretty close to the same age as cells dividing and multiplying. I mean, even in single celled organisms there must have been some occasions where some mutated cells were created that wreaked some sort of havoc with their sibling, cousin and "parent" cells. One could split hairs if it's cancer in the classic understanding, but... I'd argue it's the same mechanism at work:mutations running amok. I was more skeptical about the YOUTH of her claim than its ancient-ness. My first reaction was "Wait- cancer is ONLY 200 million years old???" I would have guessed 500-600 million years or OLDER. I can't imagine it wasn't right in the middle of the Cambrian Explosion already.
With our current understanding of biology and how cells and DNA work, it never ceases to amaze me that anyone could think that cancer is a recent phenomenon. At the end of the day, it's simply a matter of cells malfunctioning and the mechanism in the DNA that tells cells to stop replicating. That's not to take away the horror of cancer (my kids lost their dad very young, they were only 8 & 10 at the time) but the mechanics of it aren't hard to understand. "Malfunctions" of DNA are, were, and always will be, both a blessing and a curse.
@@zarasha8220 Sorry for your loss. and yes, cancer is very, very ancient. My own theory is that it's been with us as long as multicelluar ife has existed.
Kayleigh you come up with some really interesting topics. Your research and"classes" make me glad you don't waste your time in academia. Thank you for all you do you look rested and fantastic. Keep up the excellent work and I am glad you pointed out how these little devils build immunity when we develop something. It is a never-ending battle. Thank you for all you do.
I was treated for a form of AML (Leukemia) in Boston at Dana Farber in 2003. They offered the best regimen of chemo as well as an experimental trial that included an arsenic derivative. Needless to say I avoided the trial. I was cured (yes cured - lucky boy) by chemo alone. No bone marrow transplant was required. When I asked about arsenic, the oncologist said that it has been a mainstay of medicine for all kinds of maladies including syphilus and cancers since the middle ages and we are still actively studying it here in Boston. Turns out that it goes back at least 2400 years. See: History of the Development of Arsenic Derivatives in Cancer Therapy SAMUEL WAXMAN, a KENNETH C. ANDERSON
WOW!!! Kay, the more things change the more they same the same. I am type 1 Diabetic and this reminds me of other such diseases. I pray you will continue your healing. The extorverts always overwhelmed the introverts. Y'all cowgirl Kay ha ha ha . Be well Ms kay-leigh. ✝♥🙏🙏🌹 Your videos are enlightening. THANKS SO MUCH 👍👍
As a healthcare professional that every now and then, has to tell someone that they have terminal cancer, I am very happy to say that we are VERY close to a cure. We are at the very cusp of a paradigm shift. Ive been witnessing it myself over the past 10 years some big realizations have been made in the industry and in the Life Sciences. When I started in healthcare 20 years ago, no one was even thinking about prevention. We just treated chronic diseases as the arose within a community/population. The urban planners and Public health officials were considering how the built environment and Social Determinants of Health are acting upon and affecting a particular community. Im from Los Angeles, and we built this city in a manner which condemned entire communities to poor health... Diabetes, heart disease, ect. We know now that when you dont put a park in a neighborhood, the rates of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease goes up within that community. Low and behold, if you build it, they will come... and recreate. If you dont build it, people will sit on the couch and get diabetes. We can thank Kaiser for the realization that we have a sick care system and not a health care system. It was Kaiser, that figured it out that the more you focus on prevention, the more money you make at the end of the year. The more chronic diseases Kaiser can prevent with their gym memberships and cooking classes and smoking prevention classes, the better it is for their bottom line. This all took place within the last 10 years, believe it or not. I estimate that within the next 2 to 5 to 10 years, the very deadliest cancers will be cured. Alot of cures will be coming on line within the next 15-20 years, especially with CRISPR-Cas9. We can now engineer viruses to only infect cancer cells. We can turn polio, flu, HIV into Heat seeking missiles that only target cancer cells. Its a brave new world, where most of the simple genetic diseases will be history. There is alot about which to be very optimistic.
I was surprised to learn that many considered cancer a quite new phenomenon. While aging obviously is correlated with cancer getting much more common, it is obviously well-known that quite a few younger people, even children, get cancer too. Basically cancer looks to be just a "deregulation" of the strict control over cell growth to fit their placement in to body, and such mishaps is just part of how cell biology works. Part of the flexibility allowing evolution.
That's because until relatively recently cancers didn't actually kill many people. Most of the time people didn't live long enough to develop cancer. And the few that did, were generally killed by something else, to which the cancer may have contributed. You know the classical stuff like dysentery, cholera, fevers, impacted wisdom teeth, starvation, violent neighbours or just being killed by your farm animals in an accident.
The word deregulation is a good way to describe it. Usually the immune system kills the deformed cells. There are lots of deformed cells in our bodies all the time and it's usually no big deal. Phagocytes eat them and life goes on. But when these cells multiply enough to cause a problem they start attacking healthy tissues that problems arise. And like Dave Harrison above me says, cancer would be exceedingly rare in an age where life expectancy is a ripe old age of 35. Another thing to consider is the taboos around messing with dead bodies or performing autopsies. I bet a lot of deaths due to pathology in days of yore went uninvestigated.
Kayleigh, you make very interesting and informative videos every time! Well done. I hope you are doing well, in a personal sense. Don't worry; be happy!
Though I knew about nearly all of this already (I follow stuff like this really closely, for personal reasons), you did an excellent job of covering those reports! (Edited for clarity)
As a two time cancer survivor I can tell you, we all carry cancer in our cells. What makes it active I do not know. Other cancers are caused by external sources such as chemicals or radiation. My suggestion is don’t get Multiple Myeloma. Treatment usually takes years and many people never stop taking maintenance drugs.
My father in law died of COVID-19 pneumonia while in his fifth year after diagnosis of multiple myeloma. He had been on Revlamid a derivative of thalidomide for most of the time after he was diagnosed too. He and his wife he in his 70's then 80's and she in her 60's then 70's had to answer questions every month and promise not to have sex and get pregnant since he was taking the drug that deformed so many during the 50's and 70's when pregnant women were given the drug for nausea.
Since malignant tumors affect many other living species, it must be really old, possibly as old as multicellular life. But it cannot easily detected in fossil record, since it won't leave trace unless it effects skeletons, and we need also several identical healthy bones for comparison.
Great job, Kayleigh. Indeed, the longer someone lives, the greater the odds that this person will develop a type of cancer. So the better our health care, the more cancer we see. Sad. We should keep in mind that there is no single disease called, "cancer." Cancers can occur any time a cell in your body is damaged. If this damage doesn't kill the cell but does break the cell in a manner that prevents the cell's growth from being regulated, then a type of cancer may form. For example, when you scrape your hand, skin cells at the edges of the wound reproduce until the wound is healed, then they stop. You can imagine that if some of these cell's kept growing uncontrollably, you may end up with a skin tumor. This also is why cancers are hard to treat. Depending on what type of cell is damaged (blood, bone marrow, liver, lung, brain, etc.) as well as the nature of this damage, many treatments must be developed in order to treat all the different types of cancer. So we can cure certain types of cancer, but not the mythological lumped-together "cancer" that some tend to think of.
I agree with the description of cancer but have to add one quick point. I am Canadian, but if if I had to live somewhere else, it would be the Netherlands...beautiful country and awesome people.
I've been there where I needed a vacation from my vacation. On average I go for 9 days and when I return, I need an additional 3 to 4 days to recover before going back to work.
I think a lot of people forget that we live FAR, FAR longer than our ancient ancestors. SO long in fact, that we have entered the territory where it is not age itself or any of the diseases we have readily-available cures-for that gets you, but some other disease that statistically didn't get a chance before (because you died first) like cancer.
Very informative. Definitely thought cancer was younger. Not surprised though. Guess now I'm curious about the Great Flood in the 50s. I'll go look it up. Thanks!
My Dad was in the Army CWS stationed in New Guinea during WWII. He field-tested defoliants, precursors to Agent Orange. His leiomyosarcoma was not properly diagnosed until shortly before he died, but he suffered from the cancer ever since returning from the service. We believe the Army refused to allow a cancer diagnosis because of their culpability; the military killed my Dad, slowly and painfully. [I am that odd combination of extreme patriot and anti-military extremist as a result.]
Loved your video! Excellent!! Perfect!! I'm a historian,and as long as I can recall. I know about mummies,from Egypt with cancer. Have a Nice trip beautiful and clever historian I'm a medieval history expert,and wo
My theory is cancer started at the dawn of multicellular life, one cell can’t get cancer but just two cells could have one turn in theory and boom first cancer. I know it’s basically unprovable but it makes so much sense to me. All animals get it, so it has to have followed us from then
Really good video. You also happen to look very pretty this episode. You always look good but something was different. Keep up the good work. I really love your videos.
I feel cancer has always been around. We are all living longer lives so cancer seems to be more common to us today than I think it was in ancient times.
You must be related to the Dutch gal "Itchy Boots" she only travels alone. Our 13 year old Great Dane has bone cancer, his knee is the size of a grapefruit, nice to know he is just carrying on the tradition of 240 million years. I am a 14 year cancer survivor.
Your studio has a bit of echo. I never noticed it in other videos, so have you taken away some sound-absorbing material, or changed the microphone placement?
I think it's interesting to look at questions like what's the oldest evidence of cancer we have found? Or what did ancient peoples before knowledge of cells think or record about cancer. But is "when did cancer begin" even a question people ask? I assume that's something which has happened ever since the evolution of multicellular life with specialized cells that would be harmed by any of those cells "going rogue" and not staying in their place, doing their part and multiplying out of control. Also, while nothing we can currently do can make us immune I'd be careful about saying things that might be taken to comply that healthy living has no use. Choices still affect the probability of cancer, the age when it happens and the quality of life before it's over.
Kayleigh, I'm an ambivert also 👍 I'm starting to find though that I'm becoming more introverted? I need time to myself more often then I used to? When COVID hit and everyone was upset about being locked in the house by themselves......I didn't really care that much? I have wondered about Cancer as my experience was much like your own? I think you are right about people living longer and therefore they age into that bracket where cancer starts to affect us? I think that everyone has cancer to some degree...... And it's just because we live longer. In the past we would die before getting to an age where cancer affects us? Cancer really is a horrible disease. I cared for my father that had cancer for 3 years; he was given just 3 months to live because the cancer was pancreatic and it couldn't be operated on or removed? Unfortunately, I too now have a type of cancer? It isn't malignant but it is extremely painful and it is still growing 😐 It's on my nose so it is in a very obvious spot. I don't have a job at the moment and no insurance so there's no options for me to have it removed because of it's status being benign? Because I'm poor I've resorted to DIY removal of my cancer. It's about the size of an Australian 5c coin. I've thus far removed about 3gms of material from my face..... Which is quite a lot (those of you who indulge in some Marijuana will know what 3 grams looks like?) Anyway I don't even know why I'm posting this? I'm not wanting any sympathy from anyone; I don't know a single one of you on here anyway? My thoughts are that we will all die anyway......some day? When my dad got his diagnosis......I was absolutely devastated (probably because I knew he didn't have long left with us) But now when it's me........ it's like I don't even care? And it's like nobody else does either? It's so strange how as soon as we know we haven't got long everyone starts panicking? I tell people about my situation and just because they haven't put a "dead line" on it....... It's like it doesn't even matter? I don't really care as I said I don't want sympathy, but it's just strange how different people's reactions are? Maybe because I'm not popular or my dad was loved by more people? Maybe post-covid people simply don't have any care left to give? Anyway knowing it's been around for that long, I can give up thinking there will be a cure in my lifetime lol. Farewell everyone, go and enjoy your lives whilst you are still breathing air
Cancer is a horrible disease. Isn’t there a free clinic you could qualify for? It’s probably a fairly simple operation, but it should be done under sterile conditions.
@@barrywalser2384 unfortunately in Australia, soon as it is found to be benign..... All options for removing it (for little to no cost) disappears?I don't have insurance.....and even if I did, they consider the procedure to be "cosmetic"? Which sucks. Unless it's malignant they won't remove it, I have to remove it at my own costs? Because I'm so poor and have no money I can't afford $6K to have it cut out and skin grafts done? It should be a simple operation but it's not on just on the surface of the skin. My tumour is hypokeratinised, which means it's kind formed this really really hard and dense mass that is about the hardness of a toe nail? I've literally destroyed 10 sets of toe nail clippers through the removal process. It's time consuming and painful.....but I am making some progress? I've not really had much in the way of infections caused from my removal technique...... However numerous times I've been digging and ruptured fluid sacks as I'm removing material out of my nose? From a small 5c coin sized wound that is visible, I've removed about a cup of material? Or enough to fill the entire palm of your hand and about 2cm thick? The keratin is so hardened that it not only feels like, but sounds like I'm hacking into fibreglass? The sound is horrendous, it is as if I'm snipping a bunch of glass fibre optic fibres or cutting through metallic sand paper with scissors or something? I have taken hundreds of photographs over the duration of the time it's taken me to remove it...... And I've tried to keep all the material I've removed in case some medical expert would like to see it as a reference? I'm looking at the extracted material and I think it actually looks more like ½ a cup not a full cup? On the plus side because I am not just removing it in 1 go all at once, it has allowed my body to reform some new epidermal layers under neath tumour...so hopefully if I keep cutting away at it eventually it will stop growing back again? For some reason on the bridge of the nose, it doesn't get infected very easily? And a lot of the mass from the wound doesn't even hurt when I remove it? Sometimes it will piss out with blood and it only hurts like getting a needle...... So I will just keep trying with it until it's removed or it becomes too painful to remove? (without anaesthetic) and hopefully by that time I will have sold my project car and can afford to have it surgically removed? Or I suppose if it becomes too serious before that time, I could set up a go fund me or kick starter or something? But I don't even think it would be worth my time asking other people for money...... like a begger 😟 as I don't even know many people anymore? A few years back I got so annoyed that I have helped so so many people giving up hours, days and even weeks of my time? I needed help and I contacted every single person I had mates credit with and asked them for some help? None of them actually helped or returned the favour? When I asked people 3 times, if they said no to help me..... That was the last time they would hear my voice again. Delete, block, double blocked gone. So I don't talk to any of them? So what would be the point of even asking the zero people who care for some money? HOW? As it stands I can put a post on social media (even controversial post) and a week later there isn't even like or reply? I just realised now that I'm here explaining myself to someone that doesn't know me from a bar of soap? Anyway I'm sorry for waffling on pointlessly
@@Jarmezrocks I do feel for you. That’s an awful thing to deal with on your own. I have had a small skin cancer, but nothing like what you’ve got. I hope your efforts will cause it to heal soon. Take care.
I mean, given the nature of cancer, I'm not really surprised. I imagine humanity will continue to endure it until more effective ways of correcting it are discovered.
Considering the 240 million year old turtle with tumors, and the fact that pets can get cancer, it's pretty safe to say that it's probably existed in every animal going back as far as animals have been a thing.
Well Damn! I really got educated on this one! I know about cancer. I have not kept up with the archeology of it. THIS is why I joined Kayleigh! She keeps me current. Do we worry about Kayleigh? We are concerned about Kayleigh. Th very same empathy that caused a group of Neanderthal to care for one of their number who was injured is at work here. Would you expect any of us to be less empathic toward Kayleigh than a Neanderthal? No. So we can and should “worry” a bit if that’s how you’d like to verbalise that. Cancer, the disease, is repugnant and hard to deal with or accept. Scientifically we know what it is and what causes it. Medically, we can’t quite put a finger on it or cure it, much less prevent it. Look deep into every cell and you see DNA. Being read by RNA and controlled by a complex chemical chain of interactions. This control mechanism is what tells the RNA to start making compounds, bone, muscle, blood. And when to stop making products. This control mechanism can be damaged by chemicals; free radicals, by subatomic particles; ionising radiation, and by viral inserted DNA. All of these actions are the basis of evolution. But evolution has two roads. Up to bigger and better by adaptive mutation. Or down to extinction by lethal mutation. Cancer is one face of this lethal mutation. A mutation that effects only one cell type, usually, and is not congenital. Other lethal mutations can be congenital, briefly. So. Cellular biology understands that you can’t prevent cancer anymore than you can prevent evolutionary mutations. You might control them a bit at best. With ocher for instance. Medically we can treat individual symptoms. Control the uncontrolled growth in certain cell types chemically or biologically. But there is no “cure” because it is a basic element of the process we call adaptive evolution. It is a part of life as we know it. Sorry. It’s a bitter pill for those that must deal with it directly. Fox out.
Why would anyone think that cancer is a recent innovation? It is the consequence of an error in cellular reproduction, a problem like that would go all the way back to the very earliest multicellular life.
very interesting facts you have shared here about an evil disease, and I see the hear no, say no, see no on the table excellent!! Keep up the great work and take care of you.
I am 77 years old. My mother died of cancer when I was 12 years old. I took it personally but now I see that cancer has been around for millions and millions of years. It just happens. Nothing personal. Thank you Kayleigh.
They say cancer risk is high among pilots, I wonder if the radiation from the sun is to blame for the turtle and other creatures getting cancer ? Hmmmm ? I think there are many causes for cancer with humans but not these animals in their unpolluted living space !
more Proof god doesn't exist.
Sorry about your Mum...my biggest hurdle with Cancer is when i was 16 my younger sister died of Leukemia, that was except for that a good year, Woodstock and the first man on the moon.
I'm 70 in Jan and have lost many others to Cancer and dealt with it and moved on.
My Sister's cry about still so many years later.....I mean CRY...I've been
told by more than one gifted individule that it makes her sad and I believe your soul carries on and it's silly to mourn her like I do, I can't seem to stop.
I don't know why I shared this but it wasn't to make your situation less important . Cheers
@@DonaldHoneywill I read your story and felt your pain. I don't mean that I actually felt your pain but I empathize so much and feel your hurt.
Thank you Kayleigh. I'm a cancer survivor and your research information adds a perspective I never thought about. Glad to hear that you are okay and simply regrouping. When you feel overwhelmed I suggest you pick up your kitties and relax. They'll make sure you stay on track and take care of you too. Be safe and be well. 😊
I am happy for you. My Grandfather died of cancer. Two of my uncles and an aunt have beaten it. Thank modern medicine. One had a tumor the size of a grapefruit removed from his lower back. Another had a mole the size of a palm. My aunt went through hell with breast cancer. She lost her hair. But... she's still sparky.
Every time we speak, she's the same happy person. I love her with every atom of my being. She never gave up.
Keep being you, and keep staying positive. Cancer sucks.
@@thedude2847thank you for your comment. The affliction wears you down in many ways. Sorry to hear your family has had to endure cancer. No fun at all to deal with.
It's kind of Kayleigh to explore this devastating disease and take time to present information so we have a deeper understanding of cancer's evolution.
All the best to you and yours.
I had no idea how old cancer is.
I was so engrossed by this I googled it and watched your show a second time.
Cancer is not something you catch, but is somehow genetically engineered into the body
over the millenia, am I going off in a tangent.
Over 240,000,000 years!!
I read that plants and fishes get cancer.
Sharks are resistant to cancer, something to do with their cartilage.
Thank you Kayleigh for all your efforts.
Please keep well young lady.
When I moved cities, I found myself getting lost all the time. One day I called my brother complaining of my lack of navigation skills, he said to me that I'm never lost, I'm just on an adventure. When ever mental health creeps in, I just remember those wise words
I’m a brain tumor survivor I was diagnosed with mine at the age of 34 and in runs in my family. My mother passed away at 36 from brain cancer, her sister currently has a brain tumor.
I survived because given my family history I was hyper aware and when I got headaches that nothing stopped. I would not let doctors tell me they were just migraines.
Anyone reading this if you don’t feel well listen to you body. It can save your life.
Childhood cancers, like leukemia, were not properly diagnosed before modern times.
Most cancers were looked at as a "curse."
It's shocking to me that conditions with which one is born, such as Type 1 diabetes, are still claimed to be mysterious in origin, despite gestational diabetes being a well established malady. Obviously, a pregnant woman submitting to sugar cravings throughout the 9 months stands a chance of wrecking the child's pancreas. As for childhood leukemia, I couldn't say, but some combination of diet, environment, and lifestyle of the mother is surely relevant.
@@briankruse1506 No, that isn't how cancer works
It's still a curse if you ask my opinion
Frequent travel can become an art form. I used to travel for work and it could definitely become exhausting both physically and emotionally. Take care of yourself. I love your speech.
Your thumbnails are getting better and better!
Hi Kayleigh, greetings from the edge of Doggerland, England, UK.
I recently lost my Father to brain cancer (I thought he would live forever), it was and still is so hard to take onboard, it was the first time I had to deal with this cruel disease in my life.
On a side note, I believe we don't always need science to prove how old something is, often common sense will do. ...... Car crashes are as old as cars, house fires as old as houses, genetic mutations are as old as genes, so cancer is probably as old as life itself.
You mentioned feeling "burnt out", but please remember that a Phoenix has to burn before it can rise again.
You ARE a Phoenix Kayleigh, you WILL rise again!
Hugs Xx
Interesting! I hadn’t heard about the turtle. Poor guy! Also love the colours you’re wearing.
I'm sorry to hear that you've lost people to cancer. That appears to be something that most of us have in common, sadly. You cover some very interesting topics. I've enjoyed your videos, and hope to see more in the future!
My mother has literally beaten cancer 7 times and is still going strong, Now I imagine her, A tiny lady aged 76 in a boxing ring beating up an ancient monster. :D
Thank you so much for this. Having lost people from cancer, it leaves a lot of questions. While this doesn't answer all of them, it does answer some. I still need to process all of the information, but part of me assume a lot of this had to do with the things we were doing to our planet. Those things might not help, but it was already a problem for ancient man and even the dinosaurs.
Lost both of my parents about three months apart to Cancer. Some ten years before that my younger sister lost her fight to Cancer. It's a horrible decease. It took me a good year before i wanted to be around people again when my parents died so I do understand your need for space to heal both soul and mind after such a lost. My God bless and keep you safe and you find a peaceful resolution to your needs.
Glad to hear you're good. Stress is stressful, lol. Another great vid. Take care. 😎🍻🤘
Sorry for your loss Kayleigh, I know that pain also
This was a great presentation and quite accurate. I find it fascinating that cancer goes back all those millions of years. My father was a general practitioner (physician) and this brings me back to childhood when he explained what cancer is to me. We've learned so much since then (60 years ago) but his explanation is still pretty accurate. He would be amazed to find out how long cancer has actually existed.
I find it fascinating that not only is cancer ancient, but that it existed far back along the human family tree. But I suppose it makes sense. My guess is that it may have been extant ever since multicellular life arose. Surely there were occasions back then where a cell started reproducing uncontrollably which, at base, is what cancer is.
Again, thank you for an interesting, engaging presentation.
Yes, these are my thoughts exactly, and I'm a little stunned, honestly, that anyone would imagine cancer is NOT ancient. I mean, I'm far from an educated scientist, but I can't see how cancer can NOT be, in some sense, pretty close to the same age as cells dividing and multiplying. I mean, even in single celled organisms there must have been some occasions where some mutated cells were created that wreaked some sort of havoc with their sibling, cousin and "parent" cells. One could split hairs if it's cancer in the classic understanding, but... I'd argue it's the same mechanism at work:mutations running amok. I was more skeptical about the YOUTH of her claim than its ancient-ness. My first reaction was "Wait- cancer is ONLY 200 million years old???" I would have guessed 500-600 million years or OLDER. I can't imagine it wasn't right in the middle of the Cambrian Explosion already.
With our current understanding of biology and how cells and DNA work, it never ceases to amaze me that anyone could think that cancer is a recent phenomenon. At the end of the day, it's simply a matter of cells malfunctioning and the mechanism in the DNA that tells cells to stop replicating. That's not to take away the horror of cancer (my kids lost their dad very young, they were only 8 & 10 at the time) but the mechanics of it aren't hard to understand. "Malfunctions" of DNA are, were, and always will be, both a blessing and a curse.
@@composerdoh I was just thinking that there are Cambrian fossils either yet to be found or reevaluated that will show cancer.
@@zarasha8220 Sorry for your loss. and yes, cancer is very, very ancient. My own theory is that it's been with us as long as multicelluar ife has existed.
Kayleigh you come up with some really interesting topics. Your research and"classes" make me glad you don't waste your time in academia. Thank you for all you do you look rested and fantastic. Keep up the excellent work and I am glad you pointed out how these little devils build immunity when we develop something. It is a never-ending battle. Thank you for all you do.
I was treated for a form of AML (Leukemia) in Boston at Dana Farber in 2003. They offered the best regimen of chemo as well as an experimental trial that included an arsenic derivative. Needless to say I avoided the trial. I was cured (yes cured - lucky boy) by chemo alone. No bone marrow transplant was required. When I asked about arsenic, the oncologist said that it has been a mainstay of medicine for all kinds of maladies including syphilus and cancers since the middle ages and we are still actively studying it here in Boston. Turns out that it goes back at least 2400 years. See: History of the Development of Arsenic
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Thank you, Kayleigh, for having the courage to say, "mental health reasons," out loud! After all, like cancer, no one is immune to that.🙂👍
Yes, Take care Kayleigh.
So happy to see You again! Hopefully You feel well again, but take your time to heal fully💕
Lots of love from Sweden
WOW!!! Kay, the more things change the more they same the same. I am type 1 Diabetic and this reminds me of other such diseases. I pray you will continue your healing. The extorverts always overwhelmed the introverts. Y'all cowgirl Kay ha ha ha . Be well Ms kay-leigh. ✝♥🙏🙏🌹 Your videos are enlightening. THANKS SO MUCH 👍👍
As a healthcare professional that every now and then, has to tell someone that they have terminal cancer, I am very happy to say that we are VERY close to a cure. We are at the very cusp of a paradigm shift. Ive been witnessing it myself over the past 10 years some big realizations have been made in the industry and in the Life Sciences. When I started in healthcare 20 years ago, no one was even thinking about prevention. We just treated chronic diseases as the arose within a community/population. The urban planners and Public health officials were considering how the built environment and Social Determinants of Health are acting upon and affecting a particular community. Im from Los Angeles, and we built this city in a manner which condemned entire communities to poor health... Diabetes, heart disease, ect.
We know now that when you dont put a park in a neighborhood, the rates of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease goes up within that community. Low and behold, if you build it, they will come... and recreate. If you dont build it, people will sit on the couch and get diabetes.
We can thank Kaiser for the realization that we have a sick care system and not a health care system. It was Kaiser, that figured it out that the more you focus on prevention, the more money you make at the end of the year. The more chronic diseases Kaiser can prevent with their gym memberships and cooking classes and smoking prevention classes, the better it is for their bottom line. This all took place within the last 10 years, believe it or not.
I estimate that within the next 2 to 5 to 10 years, the very deadliest cancers will be cured. Alot of cures will be coming on line within the next 15-20 years, especially with CRISPR-Cas9. We can now engineer viruses to only infect cancer cells. We can turn polio, flu, HIV into Heat seeking missiles that only target cancer cells. Its a brave new world, where most of the simple genetic diseases will be history. There is alot about which to be very optimistic.
Your channel has exploded! Congratulations!!
Take care Kayleigh. Thanks for letting us know how you’re doing. Best to you and thanks for your thoughtful and educational presentations.
Nice Work, Kayleigh!
Welcome back, I missed your videos.
Excellent job K! Great research in this…
I was surprised to learn that many considered cancer a quite new phenomenon. While aging obviously is correlated with cancer getting much more common, it is obviously well-known that quite a few younger people, even children, get cancer too. Basically cancer looks to be just a "deregulation" of the strict control over cell growth to fit their placement in to body, and such mishaps is just part of how cell biology works. Part of the flexibility allowing evolution.
That's because until relatively recently cancers didn't actually kill many people. Most of the time people didn't live long enough to develop cancer. And the few that did, were generally killed by something else, to which the cancer may have contributed. You know the classical stuff like dysentery, cholera, fevers, impacted wisdom teeth, starvation, violent neighbours or just being killed by your farm animals in an accident.
The word deregulation is a good way to describe it. Usually the immune system kills the deformed cells. There are lots of deformed cells in our bodies all the time and it's usually no big deal. Phagocytes eat them and life goes on. But when these cells multiply enough to cause a problem they start attacking healthy tissues that problems arise.
And like Dave Harrison above me says, cancer would be exceedingly rare in an age where life expectancy is a ripe old age of 35. Another thing to consider is the taboos around messing with dead bodies or performing autopsies. I bet a lot of deaths due to pathology in days of yore went uninvestigated.
I enjoy your forthrightnesses. The world would be a better place if we communicated openly.
Thank you for doing this! History on cancer. Many people don't know this.
Nice to see you back rested. And, my own wife died 2 years ago from cancers. This punched me a bit.
Condolences.
Kayleigh, you make very interesting and informative videos every time! Well done. I hope you are doing well, in a personal sense. Don't worry; be happy!
How old is cancer?
Probably almost as old as multicellular organisms. About two billion years old.
Keep up the good work...you stretch my mind.
I love what you do and I thank you for it. I pray you are healthy and know what you do is important. ❤️
Though I knew about nearly all of this already (I follow stuff like this really closely, for personal reasons), you did an excellent job of covering those reports!
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As a two time cancer survivor I can tell you, we all carry cancer in our cells. What makes it active I do not know. Other cancers are caused by external sources such as chemicals or radiation. My suggestion is don’t get Multiple Myeloma. Treatment usually takes years and many people never stop taking maintenance drugs.
My father in law died of COVID-19 pneumonia while in his fifth year after diagnosis of multiple myeloma. He had been on Revlamid a derivative of thalidomide for most of the time after he was diagnosed too. He and his wife he in his 70's then 80's and she in her 60's then 70's had to answer questions every month and promise not to have sex and get pregnant since he was taking the drug that deformed so many during the 50's and 70's when pregnant women were given the drug for nausea.
Excellent topic. Haven't seen anyone else talk about this.
I had cancer at 26yrs old, I am now 67 and have skin cancers which have been treated the rest excised …
Hi, that was fantastic ! Thanks! I hope you are well and I look forward to your next download. Take care , best wishes from New Zealand!
You are wonderfully awesome and very refreshing.
INTERESTING 🤔
GOOD WORK KAYLEIGH
ALL THE BEST😃
Thanks for answering a question I've pondered on a few occasions.
Always learning from you Kayleigh, thank you and keep the videos coming please.
Hi Hayleigh a very interesting video. So much to contemplate. Good to see you.
Since malignant tumors affect many other living species, it must be really old, possibly as old as multicellular life. But it cannot easily detected in fossil record, since it won't leave trace unless it effects skeletons, and we need also several identical healthy bones for comparison.
I never thought of cancer as being a young disease. I’ve had several dogs that died of cancer. I’m more afraid of drunk drivers.
Lost a few loved ones to cancer myself
"Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet." -- Michael Douglas
Great content. Very interesting. I'm always amazed by your intelligence.
Thanks for sharing 👍😀
you take good care, thanks for this informarion I have twice been diafnosed w/CA. This time its surgery. Bless you beautiful lady
Amazing information..thank you
Stay safe and well. 🙏🤗 Vancouver.
Self-care is so important! Good for you for recognizing!
Thank you for a great video, the history of disease is fascinating, history of cures even more so!
Keep your chin up and your toes in warm water. Nicely done always enjoy your videos as they scratch both my historic and archeological itches
Great job, Kayleigh. Indeed, the longer someone lives, the greater the odds that this person will develop a type of cancer. So the better our health care, the more cancer we see. Sad.
We should keep in mind that there is no single disease called, "cancer." Cancers can occur any time a cell in your body is damaged. If this damage doesn't kill the cell but does break the cell in a manner that prevents the cell's growth from being regulated, then a type of cancer may form. For example, when you scrape your hand, skin cells at the edges of the wound reproduce until the wound is healed, then they stop. You can imagine that if some of these cell's kept growing uncontrollably, you may end up with a skin tumor.
This also is why cancers are hard to treat. Depending on what type of cell is damaged (blood, bone marrow, liver, lung, brain, etc.) as well as the nature of this damage, many treatments must be developed in order to treat all the different types of cancer. So we can cure certain types of cancer, but not the mythological lumped-together "cancer" that some tend to think of.
I agree with the description of cancer but have to add one quick point. I am Canadian, but if if I had to live somewhere else, it would be the Netherlands...beautiful country and awesome people.
I've been there where I needed a vacation from my vacation. On average I go for 9 days and when I return, I need an additional 3 to 4 days to recover before going back to work.
Love ❤ all your video's you make history enjoyable so take good care my dear ,a real treasure 🥰✌
Great review and channel. Stay strong girl, fellow sufferer 💪
wow...just wow. nice work. Hope you actually took enough time off. But great video. quite intriguing.
great video Keep up the positive on your health thats half the battle
I think a lot of people forget that we live FAR, FAR longer than our ancient ancestors. SO long in fact, that we have entered the territory where it is not age itself or any of the diseases we have readily-available cures-for that gets you, but some other disease that statistically didn't get a chance before (because you died first) like cancer.
I love this woman! I can listen to her for days!!
I am glad you are ok!
My mother died from cancer at the age of 57. 28 years ago now. Also my father in law at age 70.
Very informative. Definitely thought cancer was younger. Not surprised though. Guess now I'm curious about the Great Flood in the 50s. I'll go look it up. Thanks!
My Dad was in the Army CWS stationed in New Guinea during WWII. He field-tested defoliants, precursors to Agent Orange. His leiomyosarcoma was not properly diagnosed until shortly before he died, but he suffered from the cancer ever since returning from the service. We believe the Army refused to allow a cancer diagnosis because of their culpability; the military killed my Dad, slowly and painfully. [I am that odd combination of extreme patriot and anti-military extremist as a result.]
Like agent orange chemical triggers cancers
@@ronpflugrath2712 my Dad field-tested chemicals which made Agent Orange seem like orange soda.
Loved your video! Excellent!! Perfect!! I'm a historian,and as long as I can recall. I know about mummies,from Egypt with cancer.
Have a Nice trip beautiful and clever historian I'm a medieval history expert,and wo
Would Love to visit Malta with The Saint Jhon's knights. Ancient history is like a hobby for me.
Take care Kaliegh
Cancer is at cellular levels and is very common in all animals and has probably been around since life first began.
I avoided watching this one because cancer is unfavorite discussion but its not bad.
Surprising topic, very informative research work you did there. Take care of yourself ! P.S your hair color and make up is on point, you're shinning !
I love learning about ethymology of words, knowing the origin of cancer and oncology is quite funny
Looking up these sources. Should be very interesting.
I am a medical scientist - retired. Well outlined.
Cancer is the emperor of all maladies.
Wow my mind is blown, I was one of those that thought it had only been around a relatively short time. Thank you for this education.
My theory is cancer started at the dawn of multicellular life, one cell can’t get cancer but just two cells could have one turn in theory and boom first cancer. I know it’s basically unprovable but it makes so much sense to me. All animals get it, so it has to have followed us from then
Huummm, Azrael. Interesting perspective. From the point of view of a single cell we, the multi celled, might appear as a cancer.
Good that you recognize effects on you health stemming from this crazy modern life.
Stay healthy & stay smart.
indeed cancer is a terrible disease. That was a great thought provoking presentation.
Really good video. You also happen to look very pretty this episode. You always look good but something was different.
Keep up the good work. I really love your videos.
I feel cancer has always been around. We are all living longer lives so cancer seems to be more common to us today than I think it was in ancient times.
You must be related to the Dutch gal "Itchy Boots" she only travels alone. Our 13 year old Great Dane has bone cancer, his knee is the size of a grapefruit, nice to know he is just carrying on the tradition of 240 million years. I am a 14 year cancer survivor.
Your studio has a bit of echo. I never noticed it in other videos, so have you taken away some sound-absorbing material, or changed the microphone placement?
take a break for yourself, you are your most important person
I think it's interesting to look at questions like what's the oldest evidence of cancer we have found? Or what did ancient peoples before knowledge of cells think or record about cancer. But is "when did cancer begin" even a question people ask?
I assume that's something which has happened ever since the evolution of multicellular life with specialized cells that would be harmed by any of those cells "going rogue" and not staying in their place, doing their part and multiplying out of control.
Also, while nothing we can currently do can make us immune I'd be careful about saying things that might be taken to comply that healthy living has no use. Choices still affect the probability of cancer, the age when it happens and the quality of life before it's over.
Kayleigh, I'm an ambivert also 👍
I'm starting to find though that I'm becoming more introverted? I need time to myself more often then I used to?
When COVID hit and everyone was upset about being locked in the house by themselves......I didn't really care that much?
I have wondered about Cancer as my experience was much like your own? I think you are right about people living longer and therefore they age into that bracket where cancer starts to affect us? I think that everyone has cancer to some degree...... And it's just because we live longer. In the past we would die before getting to an age where cancer affects us?
Cancer really is a horrible disease.
I cared for my father that had cancer for 3 years; he was given just 3 months to live because the cancer was pancreatic and it couldn't be operated on or removed?
Unfortunately, I too now have a type of cancer? It isn't malignant but it is extremely painful and it is still growing 😐
It's on my nose so it is in a very obvious spot.
I don't have a job at the moment and no insurance so there's no options for me to have it removed because of it's status being benign?
Because I'm poor I've resorted to DIY removal of my cancer.
It's about the size of an Australian 5c coin. I've thus far removed about 3gms of material from my face..... Which is quite a lot (those of you who indulge in some Marijuana will know what 3 grams looks like?)
Anyway I don't even know why I'm posting this? I'm not wanting any sympathy from anyone; I don't know a single one of you on here anyway?
My thoughts are that we will all die anyway......some day? When my dad got his diagnosis......I was absolutely devastated (probably because I knew he didn't have long left with us)
But now when it's me........ it's like I don't even care? And it's like nobody else does either? It's so strange how as soon as we know we haven't got long everyone starts panicking? I tell people about my situation and just because they haven't put a "dead line" on it....... It's like it doesn't even matter?
I don't really care as I said I don't want sympathy, but it's just strange how different people's reactions are?
Maybe because I'm not popular or my dad was loved by more people? Maybe post-covid people simply don't have any care left to give?
Anyway knowing it's been around for that long, I can give up thinking there will be a cure in my lifetime lol.
Farewell everyone, go and enjoy your lives whilst you are still breathing air
Cancer is a horrible disease. Isn’t there a free clinic you could qualify for? It’s probably a fairly simple operation, but it should be done under sterile conditions.
@@barrywalser2384 unfortunately in Australia, soon as it is found to be benign..... All options for removing it (for little to no cost) disappears?I don't have insurance.....and even if I did, they consider the procedure to be "cosmetic"? Which sucks. Unless it's malignant they won't remove it, I have to remove it at my own costs? Because I'm so poor and have no money I can't afford $6K to have it cut out and skin grafts done?
It should be a simple operation but it's not on just on the surface of the skin.
My tumour is hypokeratinised, which means it's kind formed this really really hard and dense mass that is about the hardness of a toe nail? I've literally destroyed 10 sets of toe nail clippers through the removal process. It's time consuming and painful.....but I am making some progress? I've not really had much in the way of infections caused from my removal technique...... However numerous times I've been digging and ruptured fluid sacks as I'm removing material out of my nose?
From a small 5c coin sized wound that is visible, I've removed about a cup of material? Or enough to fill the entire palm of your hand and about 2cm thick?
The keratin is so hardened that it not only feels like, but sounds like I'm hacking into fibreglass? The sound is horrendous, it is as if I'm snipping a bunch of glass fibre optic fibres or cutting through metallic sand paper with scissors or something?
I have taken hundreds of photographs over the duration of the time it's taken me to remove it...... And I've tried to keep all the material I've removed in case some medical expert would like to see it as a reference?
I'm looking at the extracted material and I think it actually looks more like ½ a cup not a full cup?
On the plus side because I am not just removing it in 1 go all at once, it has allowed my body to reform some new epidermal layers under neath tumour...so hopefully if I keep cutting away at it eventually it will stop growing back again?
For some reason on the bridge of the nose, it doesn't get infected very easily? And a lot of the mass from the wound doesn't even hurt when I remove it? Sometimes it will piss out with blood and it only hurts like getting a needle...... So I will just keep trying with it until it's removed or it becomes too painful to remove? (without anaesthetic) and hopefully by that time I will have sold my project car and can afford to have it surgically removed?
Or I suppose if it becomes too serious before that time, I could set up a go fund me or kick starter or something? But I don't even think it would be worth my time asking other people for money...... like a begger 😟 as I don't even know many people anymore?
A few years back I got so annoyed that I have helped so so many people giving up hours, days and even weeks of my time? I needed help and I contacted every single person I had mates credit with and asked them for some help? None of them actually helped or returned the favour? When I asked people 3 times, if they said no to help me..... That was the last time they would hear my voice again. Delete, block, double blocked gone. So I don't talk to any of them? So what would be the point of even asking the zero people who care for some money?
HOW? As it stands I can put a post on social media (even controversial post) and a week later there isn't even like or reply?
I just realised now that I'm here explaining myself to someone that doesn't know me from a bar of soap?
Anyway I'm sorry for waffling on pointlessly
@@barrywalser2384 btw my dad's name was Barry.
Thanks for taking the time to respond
@@Jarmezrocks Nice! Barry’s are rare. Always like to find another one. You are very welcome! Take care.
@@Jarmezrocks I do feel for you. That’s an awful thing to deal with on your own. I have had a small skin cancer, but nothing like what you’ve got. I hope your efforts will cause it to heal soon. Take care.
Hi kayliey, I am your student. Thank you for making me wiser... Huggs 😁
I mean, given the nature of cancer, I'm not really surprised. I imagine humanity will continue to endure it until more effective ways of correcting it are discovered.
Considering the 240 million year old turtle with tumors, and the fact that pets can get cancer, it's pretty safe to say that it's probably existed in every animal going back as far as animals have been a thing.
Very interesting subject!
Given both plants and animals get cancer I bet the common ancestor between the two did as well. It is probably as old as multicellular life.
Well Damn! I really got educated on this one! I know about cancer. I have not kept up with the archeology of it. THIS is why I joined Kayleigh! She keeps me current.
Do we worry about Kayleigh? We are concerned about Kayleigh. Th very same empathy that caused a group of Neanderthal to care for one of their number who was injured is at work here. Would you expect any of us to be less empathic toward Kayleigh than a Neanderthal? No. So we can and should “worry” a bit if that’s how you’d like to verbalise that.
Cancer, the disease, is repugnant and hard to deal with or accept.
Scientifically we know what it is and what causes it. Medically, we can’t quite put a finger on it or cure it, much less prevent it.
Look deep into every cell and you see DNA. Being read by RNA and controlled by a complex chemical chain of interactions. This control mechanism is what tells the RNA to start making compounds, bone, muscle, blood. And when to stop making products.
This control mechanism can be damaged by chemicals; free radicals, by subatomic particles; ionising radiation, and by viral inserted DNA. All of these actions are the basis of evolution. But evolution has two roads. Up to bigger and better by adaptive mutation. Or down to extinction by lethal mutation. Cancer is one face of this lethal mutation. A mutation that effects only one cell type, usually, and is not congenital. Other lethal mutations can be congenital, briefly.
So. Cellular biology understands that you can’t prevent cancer anymore than you can prevent evolutionary mutations. You might control them a bit at best. With ocher for instance.
Medically we can treat individual symptoms. Control the uncontrolled growth in certain cell types chemically or biologically. But there is no “cure” because it is a basic element of the process we call adaptive evolution. It is a part of life as we know it. Sorry. It’s a bitter pill for those that must deal with it directly.
Fox out.
Keep up the fire👍😁👍
Why would anyone think that cancer is a recent innovation? It is the consequence of an error in cellular reproduction, a problem like that would go all the way back to the very earliest multicellular life.
very interesting facts you have shared here about an evil disease, and I see the hear no, say no, see no on the table excellent!! Keep up the great work and take care of you.
Cancer is the dark side of life