Hereditary in the fact that all people in the world are related in one way or the other. So, yes . . anyone, of any age, race, sex, or despite whether they eat health foods or candy bars for lunch, exercise or are couch potatoes, smoke or not . . anyone can get cancer. There are trillions of cells in the human body, and at any moment one of the could become cancerous.
Cancer is hereditary, but not predictable. If your mother had breast cancer, you may be at a higher risk for breast cancer . . . you may take all the precautions, check your breasts for lumps, do every single thing right to check for breast cancer . . and than be totally shocked when cancer is discovered in your kidney, or colon, or that you have leukemia. The fact that your mother had breast cancer would be irrelevant. Or you may never get cancer at all. You cannot predict what will happen.
The only protection against cancer is to become as educated as you can possibly get to learn about all the warning signs, for any cancer. If you have any unusual bumps or lumps anywhere on your body . . have it checked immediately. It is also good to eat a well balanced healthy diet, exercise, learn to check your entire body for lumps or anything unusual, don't smoke or take drugs, and keep a healthy mind and attitude. That way should you ever find out you have cancer, you will be able to fight it. The healthier you are at diagnosis the more able you will be to fight the cancer successfully.
2006-11-11 11:21:01
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answered by Panda 7
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I used to be a nurse, and have debated this question with many a Doctor. Scientifically some cancers CAN be hereditary, ( this has been proven through the identification of specific genes. The ' faulty gene ' has been identified throughout generations, and it has been known for people to undertake drastic surgery in a bid to stop the cancer from developing ) however many cancers are not and they develop due to our lifestyles. Some cancers are also just coincidental. The medical profession say that 90% are due to lifestyle and 10% is down to genetics.
2006-11-11 11:13:41
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answered by Anonymous
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Genetically you will have a latent predisposition to a wide variety of illnesses including heart problems and various cancers.
What these illnesses need in order to be activated is an exposure over time to certain trigger factors. Diet plays an enormous part in this. For example, you might have inherited a latent predisposition to having bowel cancer, but if you spend your life eating a balanced diet with enough roughage (fibre), then you will be unlikely to get it. Equally, you might be biologically programmed to be more at risk from lung cancer, but if you never smoke, and avoid passive smoking, you will be unlikely to have met with the trigger factors needed to develop the disease.
The moral of the story is that although you may have a poor family history for certain types of diseases, there is no reason why you should develop the disease yourself if you take adequate precautions and live a healthy lifestyle. It is those people with the fatalistic "cancer is going to get me, it got my father and grandfather" approach, who are likely to inherit the "family disease" as they are more unlikely to take mitigating and preventative measures.
2006-11-11 15:17:14
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answered by Anonymous
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Some kinds of cancers certainly are, others less so.
We all have two pairs of each gene in our bodies. Most cancers occur because both of these genes have been mutated. Hereditary cancer means that you inherit one already mutated gene from your parent. However, this doesn't mean you will get cancer, just that you have a higher risk of developing as it only takes the other gene to be mutated to develop cancer.
2006-11-12 01:12:31
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answered by Xenophonix 3
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Propensity to cancer may be. attempt diet C treatment. many years in the past a cancer professional got here out with a paper that reported the finest cancer/an infection fighter found to this point replaced into Interferon. on the time it replaced into $15,000 a gram. The paper also reported that Interferon replaced right into a by-made from the organic breakdown of diet C on your body. presently after that the FDA tried to make diet C by prescription purely. wager why? The FDA has the RDA for diet C set at sixty 4 mg an afternoon, only sufficient to dodge scurvy. Linus Pauling, who were given a Nobel Prize for his artwork with diet C and a second Nobel Prize for organic and organic Chemistry, reported that 1000 mg an afternoon must be the minimum and 2000 mg an afternoon if you're sick or smoke. He performed tennis virtually daily until eventually the day he died at ninety six. in my opinion, I were given sick two times a three hundred and sixty 5 days for 2 weeks at a time, for more effective than twenty years, with something to this present day the medical doctors do not recognize what it replaced into, yet for a week contained in the approach those 2 weeks i replaced into flat on my decrease back. i began diet C treatment after I gave up on the medical doctors. I took sufficient to be asymptomatic for those 2 weeks. too a lot and that i have been given diarrhea and too little and that i have been given sick. interior of a slender decision, and it said a bell curve over those 2 weeks, i replaced into not sick. on the height i replaced into taking 40,000 mg an afternoon and three hundred,000 over both weeks. After 2 years of that I have not been sick in view that – more effective than 15 years. diet C acts as a organic diuretic so that you want to drink a good number of water and watch your body in entire, yet my kidneys did not dissolve because the medical doctors envisioned, or get huge kidney stones as different envisioned. i did not dissolve my bones as some envisioned or thoroughly calcify my joints as others envisioned. I had no undesirable consequences in any respect. it will be something to think about.
2016-11-29 01:23:39
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answered by ? 4
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I believe cancer can be in our gene's . With this in mind. How do we counter act this disease than? We can do this by being positive, think of our body as a car and remember that when a filter in a car is plugged it doesn't run properly, well neither does our body's this means it needs to stay cleansed. We need plenty of water, no sticky foods such as white refined sugars that will gum us up or fats that are unhealthy. Eat plenty of bright fruit and veggies. No eating after 7P.M. and get plenty of exercise. Always consult with a doctor before making such changes listed above.
2006-11-11 11:05:18
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answered by Tami 1
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certain cancers can be genetic, breast cancer for instance has a huge genetic influance. Stomach cancer is another disease that has strong genetic links however some cancers are not genetic, or at least have not yet had a link with genes shown yet.
2006-11-14 09:25:39
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answered by guitarmanbrum 1
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There is no single cause of cancer.
There is a genetic component to some cancers; e.g. certain types of breast cancer. However some kinds of cervical cancer are linked to the human papilloma virus which also causes genital warts and lung cancer is largely the result of smoking. Other cancers are the result of exposure to radioactivity.
I am rather doubtful about a direct link to milk though.
2006-11-11 11:17:17
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answered by leekier 4
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Some forms of cancer yes i do
2006-11-13 07:09:23
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answered by Candy 5
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10% heredity and 90% lifestyle. People inherit a propensity toward certain diseases. 4,000 studies show fruit and vegetable prevent cancer. Meat greatly increases chances of getting it.
2006-11-11 11:00:48
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answered by Anonymous
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