Do you believe that everything causes cancer?!

Cancer's an umbrella term for over 200 different diseases, and nobody knows what causes most of them!.

Smoking has been linked to lung and some other cancers, and excessive sun exposure to skin cancers!. Up to 10% of cancer cases are hereditary!.

Other than that, we're still pretty much in the dark about what causes cancer!. But many people want reasons, they want something to blame!. So they latch on to any piece of research, however small or inconclusive, that suggests that a certain thing might contribute to certain cancers!. 'Might' becomes 'does', 'contribute to' becomes 'cause'!. Thus many people believe that anti-perspirant causes breast cancer, on the evidence of a tiny and inconclusive study involving 20 tumours!.

And the food we eat becomes another scapegoat - people overlook the fact that many healthy people eating very healthy diets get cancer; they overlook the fact that cancer is an ancient disease that has always been with us, and they overlook the fact that cancer rates have not really risen significantly for many years!.

It is not true to say, as someone here has, that there was no cancer 'years ago'; The oldest description of cancer in humans was found in an Egyptian papyrus written between 3000-1500 BC!. It referred to tumours of the breast!.

The oldest available specimen of a human cancer is found in the remains of skull of a female who lived during the Bronze Age (1900-1600 BC) The tumour in the woman's skull was suggestive of head and neck cancer

I once read about a tumour discovered in the fossil remains of a dinosaur, but I can

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