The Cancer Episode

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. 00:00:11 Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here, too. And this is a good old-fashioned episode of Stuff You Should Know. I guess one that we hope helps people understand things better is the clumsiest way I can put it. 00:00:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty clumsy. 00:00:29 Speaker 2: Thanks. 00:00:30 Speaker 1: Nice as... You did well then. 00:00:32 Speaker 2: Did you already know a lot about cancer before researching this? Yeah. 00:00:38 Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like I knew most of this stuff. 00:00:42 Speaker 2: Oh, really? 00:00:42 Speaker 1: Generally. Like, obviously, you know, that we're going to go over a lot of statistics and stuff early on. So I wasn't super dialed in. 00:00:49 Speaker 2: But, yeah. 00:00:51 Speaker 1: I mean, we have cancer in our family on my mom's side. Like, my mom had breast cancer. Her sister had some kind of cancer. My one of her brothers had some kind of cancer. So it's sort of been around and I've lost a couple of friends to cancer. 00:01:10 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:01:11 Speaker 1: So it's popped up here and there. 00:01:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that's more than your fair share based on some of these statistics. Yeah. 00:01:19 Speaker 1: And, you know, I was. I mean, not to spoil anything, but. I did see that only 5% to 10% of all cancer cases could be attributed to genetic defects. 00:01:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw something like that, too. 00:01:34 Speaker 1: So that made me feel better as far as, you know, knowing that I'm going to die of heart disease. 00:01:40 Speaker 2: Right. You know? I mean, that is all American, though, isn't it? 00:01:45 Speaker 1: Oh, baby, it is. 00:01:47 Speaker 2: They give you a little American flag to hold in your casket when you die of heart disease. 00:01:53 Speaker 1: Yeah. But, you know, I mean, those are the two leading causes, you know, especially if you're an American. So, you know, that's one of the two is probably going to take take me out. 00:02:04 Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. It sucks to think about this kind of stuff, but you're going to there's 100 percent chance you're going to go somehow some way. 00:02:12 Speaker 1: That's right. And I think 40 percent of men and women in the United States will get a cancer diagnosis at some point. 00:02:21 Speaker 2: That's a lot. Yeah, one in every 2.5 Americans. 00:02:26 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a sobering stat. 00:02:28 Speaker 2: And I feel bad for that 0.5 American because they already have it hard enough. 00:02:32 Speaker 1: Right. I knew you'd find a way to get a little humor in here. 00:02:37 Speaker 2: So let …