Cancers can happen at any age at any time so if you have a none smoking 21 year old with lung cancer and an 80 a day 80 year old none sufferer both with no family history. Why doesnt the 80 year old get it first? Same goes for any other cancer. I Hear about colon cancer in healthy 20 year olds with no family history and old unhealthy people with history that dont get it.
Is cancer really about bad luck instead of diet, habits and history?
2006-12-20 06:55:14 · 4 answers · asked by neil p 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Many factors are involved. Genetic disposition, enviroment, health, self care, exposure to toxins etc
Luck does not come into it. Scientists actually know very little about causes and there probably as many causes as there are types of cancer;
2006-12-20 09:48:58 · answer #1 · answered by huggz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have had mouth and neck cancer and now have secondaries in my lungs. I have never smoked or been in smoky atmospheres, neither do I drink or have ever taken drugs. I have led a very healthy life with a healthy diet. According to my specialist oncologist, cancer is completely random and extremely unlucky unless you suffer from a genetic one.
2006-12-21 04:14:45 · answer #2 · answered by Pink n Wise 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cancer isn't just genetic. It can be caused by things we are exposed to everyday. Genetic predisposition doesn't mean your going to get it.
Cancer happens not because of bad luck, but probably a variety of reasons we have yet to understand
2006-12-20 06:58:11 · answer #3 · answered by Proud to be APBT 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cancer is not yet fully understood and although millions are spent on research there is no links to all or a lot of people proven
2006-12-24 03:53:49 · answer #4 · answered by P T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋