Cancer: Culprit is bad luck rather than lifestyle or genetic factors

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The causative factors for cancer is becoming so elusive now that scientists are blaming a person’s bad luck rather than their lifestyle or genetic factors for cancer.

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According to scientists in the USA, cancer arises from faulty cells during cell reproductions.  Old cells die and new cells spring up throughout the lifespan of a person.  Most of the times, this regeneration happens smoothly without any problems.  However, if any a cell malfunctions during any stages of the cell divisions, this will result in abnormal growth called cancer.

This abnormal phenomenon can occur in any person irrespective of his or her lifestyle or genetic factors.  Thus, a person who exercises regularly can have cancer if his or her cell malfunctions while a person who does not exercise and consumes a lot of fatty or sugary food can remain cancer free providing the person’s cells do not malfunction.

Up until now the main factors attributable to cancer are lifestyle factors and genetic factors.  Lifestyle factors such as smoking and heavy drinking can lead to lung cancer and liver cancer respectively.  People are advised to quit these habits to reduce their cancer risk.

Similarly genetic or hereditary factors are assumed to be risk factors for cancer.  This theory presupposes that cancer runs in families, and a family member of a cancer patient is at a higher risk of cancer than a person without a family history of cancer.

There are wider implications for these latest findings.  It will be difficult now to advise either smokers or alcoholic addicts to quit their habit and change their lifestyle because of cancer compared to before.  Likewise, family members of cancer patients will no longer consider themselves to be at a greater risk of cancer than people without family members with cancer.  Thus, they will be less incline now to go for cancer screening than before.

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