Lung,prostate,kidney,Bowl,Etc all these types of cancer.Do they really know what causes it cant all be cigaretts
2007-08-11 09:16:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
I have just been diagnosed with Myeloma a blood cancer. I have not had a cig or drink for nearly 30 years. I am a little over weight. No one in my family has died from or had cancer. In my youth I was a boxer and up till 5 years ago trained boxers. I have a good life living by the sea in a small town. My work is not taxing and I walk miles every week with my dog on the moors. Don't ask me why I should be one of the people who falls for the big C but that's life. So if its hereditary I am the start of the line.
2007-08-13 09:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by deadly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It certainly isn't all caused by cigarettes or by lifestyle or diet or anything else in particular. Many cancers are genetic and in the future most cancers will be cured by altering the genetic make up of individuals. At the moment things are moving slowly as the removal of a chromosome that causes cancer may also affect another part of the body, and as yet it is not known exactly what chromosome does what job it will take a long time to make a cure possible.
2007-08-11 16:31:09 · answer #2 · answered by northern lass 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Smoking cigarettes, drinking excess alcohol, too much sun or radiation, exposure to toxic chemicals, breathing toxic compounds, genetic tendencies or defects and cancers of unknown causes make up some of the reasons and lack of reasons people get cancer. Babies in the womb in the best living conditions sometimes contract cancer even before birth, so with some cancers no one know what causes these cancers where there are no known risk factors. Here is what the American Cancer Society has to say about the causes of cancer.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_4_2x_Do_we_know_what_causes_cancer.asp
2007-08-11 16:26:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many different types of cancers.
No-one knows exactly what causes or prevents them.
What we do know, is statistically you have a greater risk of getting cancer if you smoke.
EG. over 99% of people with small cell carcinoma of the lungs (lung cancer) are smokers or ex-smokers.
2007-08-12 21:36:54 · answer #4 · answered by Tarkarri 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Different Cancers have different causes, some people have had lung cancer who have never smoked or been in a smokey atmosphere, so it is difficult to pinpoint a cause.
2007-08-11 16:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your logic is marvelous! My uncle Frankie rode around cars his whole life before he died of an infection, which proves, I suppose, that car accidents are not the cause of injuries at all!
Dufus!
2007-08-11 17:00:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
prostrate cancer is inherited it would not matter if you smoked or not.
my dad a non smoker died from lung cancer he did not work inside he was outside all day
2007-08-11 19:25:30 · answer #7 · answered by Diamond 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It isn't. Cancer is usually a disease of old age. Very often it is genetic. Cigarrettes are thought to greatly increase the chance of getting some cancers though.
2007-08-11 16:26:35 · answer #8 · answered by Louise 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Hiya,
I am afraid 70 years of research shows that smoking cigarettes does give you cancer.. end of..
2007-08-11 16:30:06 · answer #9 · answered by yessart1956 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
we all have cancer, it is a part of our living organism, thus it is just a case of how it is activated, if you are unlucky!
2007-08-11 16:20:17 · answer #10 · answered by Niall S 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋