Why does wearing a mask not protect you from getting cancer?!


Question: Why does wearing a mask not protect you from getting cancer?
I mean don't you get cancer from the air that you breath? I am not saying that it's contagious. It's not contagious. But don't we get it from the air that we breath? If so why does a mask not protect us?

Answers:

A couple of reasons:

1- You don't get cancer from air. Pollutants in air might make you more likely to get certain cancers, but air isn't the cause of cancer.

Most cancers are simply caused by a breakdown in cellular self-regulation systems, or some other effect. (Skin cancers, for instance, are caused by UV radiation). There is no particular environmental cause that is responsible for all cancers.

2- Even for the cancers that air pollution might cause, the typical paper mask doesn't protect against them. Unless it's a properly filtered gas mask, if oxygen can get in, chances are most pollutants can as well.



Because cancer usually evolves from within the body from an abnormal cell. There is no one thing that can cause it and the cause of most is unknown. It can be hereditary.
Only some cancers due to inhaling cigarette smoke or asbestos particles etc I guess you would say can be caused by toxic air.
A mask would not protect you from other possible causes.



A mask is pointless because we don't get cancer from the air.




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