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Growing up in the 50's, I can't remember anyone having /dying of cancer.Now it seems that everyoone is getting some form of Cancr.Do you think this rise in Cancer rates could be a result of the Nuclear age?

2007-11-17 22:02:16 · 28 answers · asked by jumbo remote 2 in Health Diseases & Conditions Cancer

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Today “CANCER” is the second leading disease causing death in the world. Of the total deaths 12.5%, nearly 1/8th of deaths are caused by cancer. That’s more than the percentage of deaths caused by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria put together. More than 7 million people die of cancer and 11 million new cases are diagnosed annually.

Though the Governments of almost all developed counties and various voluntary organizations, do their best to eradicate this deadly disease by constantly making researches, inventing new drugs, medicines and vaccines and finding new techniques in treatments, STILL CANCER IS AN ENIGMA. So to increase AWARNESS of this disease, I am in the process of sharing and writing certain information related to Cancer. This is the first essay in this endeavor. I have named it –

“WHAT IS CANCER”

Cancer develops when cells in a part of the body begin to grow out of control. Although there are many kinds of cancer, they all start because of out-of-control growth of abnormal cells. Normal body cells grow, divide, and die in an orderly fashion. During the early years of a person's life, normal cells divide more rapidly until the person becomes an adult. After that, cells in most parts of the body divide only to replace worn-out or dying cells and to repair injuries.

Because cancer cells continue to grow and divide, they are different from normal cells. Instead of dying, they outlive normal cells and continue to form new abnormal cells.

Cancer cells develop because of damage to Deoxyribo-nucleic acid (DNA). This substance is in every cell and directs all activities. Most of the time when DNA becomes damaged the body is able to repair it. In cancer cells, the damaged DNA is not repaired. People can inherit damaged DNA, which accounts for inherited cancers. More often, though, a person's DNA becomes damaged by exposure to something in the environment, like smoking.

Cancer usually forms as a tumor. Some cancers, like leukemia, do not form tumors. Instead, these cancer cells involve the blood and blood-forming organs and circulate through other tissues where they grow.

Often, cancer cells travel to other parts of the body where they begin to grow and replace normal tissue. This process is called metastasis. Regardless of where a cancer may spread, however, it is always named for the place it began. For instance, breast cancer that spreads to the liver is still called breast cancer, not liver cancer.

Not all tumors are cancerous. Benign (non-cancerous) tumors do not spread (metastasize) to other parts of the body and, with very rare exceptions, are not life threatening.

Different types of cancer can behave very differently. For example, lung cancer and breast cancer are very different diseases. They grow at different rates and respond to different treatments. That is why people with cancer need treatment that is aimed at their particular kind of cancer.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world.. Today, millions of people are living with cancer or have had cancer. The risk of developing most types of cancer can be reduced by changes in a person's lifestyle, for example, by quitting smoking and eating a better diet. The sooner a cancer is found and treatment begins, the better are the chances for living for many years.-

2007-11-21 03:41:05 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 2 0

Does Everyone Get Cancer

2016-11-15 05:22:27 · answer #2 · answered by parkers 4 · 0 0

First of all, not everyone gets cancer. There are statistics that are maintained for every region of the US and many other countries that show that the rates of some cancers are declining, even as some others have increased somewhat. Nuclear radiation can be associated with certain types of cancer, but that is only a cause of a very few cases. Far more cancers are associated with cigarette smoking, for example. Also, as treatments have improved, survival rates among cancer victims have also improved.

2007-11-17 22:10:59 · answer #3 · answered by rkeech 5 · 3 0

i wouldn't say everyone, but cancer does seem to be more previllant today then 60 years ago. Partially because it's no longer a taboo subject to talk about but mostly because of the lifestyles we enjoy today are made available through the discovery and use of many harmful chemicals, many of which have been used for decades without researching long term effects...... ie/ aspestos. Ironically some people who had cancer in the 80's (like my sister) where treated with a new chemo therapy treatment that wasn't tested properly and now suffer side effects that they were not warned about. Chemicals in our food, air and water have altered our chemical make up to the point where the body no longer has the resistance that previous generations enjoyed, causing our body's cells to evolve into the malignant abnormal cells that are called cancer

2007-11-17 22:18:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

Well go back in time 200 years or so and what was the average lifespan of people.... much lower than today, people were lucky to see 50 in a lot of cases .. As the majority of cancers are the longer developing ones it is mainly the older people who contract and die from them.. in previous times they would have died from something else earlier...Also diagnostics.... what is now termed cancer would hve previously been termed something else. As to additives in foods, pesticides, herbicides, radiation,etc.. they all have a part in creating the right background for a cancer to form.. Not everybody gets cancer... Job to say exactly as many might have it but die and diagnosed with something completely different... It has been said that most men over 80 have prostate cancer, but relatively few die from it.. Something else is their final terminator...

2007-11-17 22:23:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

I think cancer has always been one of the main killers. We get much more media on it now. It used to be whispered about 40 years ago.

Also, we don't hear about all the people who have been cured, only the ones who have it. They have made a massive breakthrough on cancer.

I agree with you about cancer rates rising regarding nuclear stuff. We have a lot of that. People who have been in contact with it. Workers and soldiers etc.,

Asbestos cancer should be lower or eradicated in the future because of the ban on it. It is of course still around because some people are still alive who where in contact with asbestos not so many years ago. A lot of them have the cancer developing.

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2014-09-18 18:46:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I think in the 50's we were kids and didn't know anything.

Those who were adults didn't talk about anything 'nasty' like cancer and often people were said to have died from a heart attack or kidney or liver 'failure' - there are many euphemisms for cancer !

I think this has more to do with things than actual rates going up.

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