When people get cancer, is there really only ever one cause?!


Question: When people get cancer, is there really only ever one cause!?
I know people who smoke often get lung cancer and the like, but I don't see what one thing caused my grandfather to get leukemia!. They said, well, maybe the cigarettes, maybe the fiberglass in the boat he built, maybe this, maybe that!. Has anyone ever known of someone saying, "you ate red m&Ms, that is why you have cancer!?"Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Nobody knows what causes most cancers!.

Smoking has been linked to lung cancer and some other cancers; excessive sun exposure has been linked to skin cancers; the sexually transmitted virus HPV has been linked to cervical cancer!. Up to 10% of cancer cases are hereditary!.

Other than that, we're still pretty much in the dark about cancer and it's causes!. Nobody knows why of two people with the same risk factors (or lack of them) one will get cancer and the other won't!.

Cancer affects the healthy and the unhealthy alike; neither diet nor stress have been proven to contribute to any cancer!.

I think the biggest risk factor is sheer bad luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Remember, the cause of cancer is because cancer cells ignored the G0 cell check point, where's they are not allowed to pass this check point, if they do they can start divide through the process called mitosis and that can cause cancer to spread to the other parts in the body including blood stream!.

Well there are lots of of cancer, that's why they call it family disease it depends where the cancer spread! colon cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer, brain cancer and so on!. Www@Answer-Health@Com

No one knows what causes the majority of cancers !. !. the cancer that an older adult has is not even the same thing as the types that children or young adults will get!.

While smoking has been linked to some types of lung cancer and a few other cancers !. !.what no one is telling you is that there are over 200 other types of cancer in which there is no known cause!. No one knows why a six year old will get Neuroblastoma or a toddler will get Wilms tumor !. !. or why a young teen might get Ewings sarcoma or a young adult will get testicular cancer !. !. !. for those under the age of 50 years old !. !. there is no clear connection or link to smoking, diet, or any other environmental carcinogen !. !. for every stated risk there are hundreds and hundreds of exceptions!. No one knows why one person will get cancer while another does not !. !. no one knows why long time smokers may not get cancer !. !. while someone who has never smoked a day in their life !. !.will get lung cancer!.

So !. !.the answer to the question is !. !. only a handful of cancers can be linked to any 'cause' !. !. leaving literally hundreds of cancer types unexplained!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

depending on where in the body cancer is found depends on what caused it!. sometimes doctors just don't know what caused it!. all they can do is take an educated guess!. more important than what caused it is how to cure it!. right now my father in law is receiving treatment for bladder cancer!. over the last few years he has had surgery and radiation treatments for several different types of cancer!. it just runs in his family!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

most people assume that if they dont smoke they wont get cancer,this is not true what about young children who have cancer with parents who have never smoked!.i know a few people who have never smoked and have been diagnosed with it!.i was diagnosed with throat cancer last year which i put down to smoking as i had smoked for about 30 years so i guess i was a good candidate for it!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

we all have to die some day and we all die in different ways no one know hwat causes what they say dont smoke and u wont get lung cancer and eventually u still end up dying of that same cancer u was not suppose to get!. god has everyones destiny and you grandfather was destined to have leukemia!. all you have to do is pray for him and with him (thats if you are a religious person) for a little more time with you until he is called home by the lordWww@Answer-Health@Com

There are many known causes of cancer: use of tobacco in any form- smoking, chewing,snuff!.Alcohol,Exposure to irradiation!. Sexual activity from very early age!.Abstinence(female breast cancer)Obesity!. Certain viral infection(cervical cancer) certain drugs !.Fatty food etc
But in afew cases there are no known causesWww@Answer-Health@Com

All you need is one cell to mutate for whatever reason and boom you have cancer!. My daughter was diagnosed with bladder cancer!. She's 18, never smoked, certainly hasn't lived long enough to abuse her system that bad - yet she got a form of cancer associated primarily with 60 something men who smoke!. Explain that one!? I can tell you that the folks at Dana Farber have no clue!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Weight, health, genetics, environment can all cause cancer!. Www@Answer-Health@Com

they cant really pinpoint what causes wat types of cancer yet but certain things simalarties have shown up with people with a certain type of cancerWww@Answer-Health@Com

just as there are numerous cancers, there are also numerous causes!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

It's usually caused by stress!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

no there are lods of ways like it being past down by smoking stress!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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