Is there a positive corralation between cancer and people living longer?
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Cancer in many ways is related to ones length of exposure to carcinogens, the time needed for mutinogenic changes to occur or be detectable and if you live long enough for a cancer to show symtoms of cancer.  All of these factores favor higher cancer rates as one grows older, however many increasing rates of certain caners today are occuring in younger populations.\n\nThere are amny arguments to exactly why this is occuring, but an aging population isn't a factor if cancers in younger people are increasing.  The most common factors cited are poor western diets, exposure to more toxins, increasing UV exposure, our lyfestyle choices among many others.  So eat that crappy broccoli, excersise regularly and never smoke, drink, go outside, or breath unless you  absolutly have to to minamize possible exposure to any thing cancerous.  It just that easy..............not!
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Are you suggesting that with improving technology we are living less long?\nIf so I can think of nowhere to find evidence to say you are correct.\nGenerally, improving technology goes hand in hand with greater lifespans, although the relationship is far from causal in every case.
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because of advanced technology people are living longer.Greater demand for health care.
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Ok I hope this is not a waste of your time. Not all cancers are genetic. Some people have the genetic marker for some cancers or other diseases. The occurance of these markers increases if a parent or grandparent had the disease or a marker for it. It is like a lottery, the more decendents that had the disease the more likely you are to get it. A larger part of cancers depend on a Myriad of other factors though. -Risk factors.\n Here is a link for you.\nhttp://www.cancer.gov/cancerinformation
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If you are asking if someone who has cancer can die of old age versus the cancer ... that answer is yes.  Cancer will make you sicker and age quicker so it is harder to pin point the cause of death.
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Never heard of that!  Check out http://curezone.com/diseases/cancer/ \nfor some answers
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Yes, if there are factors that can trigger cancer.  I will give you an example:  the island municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico has a high cancer rate.\n\n"After pressure from the people of Vieques, the U.S. Navy left the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico on May, 2003, after more than 60 years of use as a testing ground. The U.S. Navy came to Vieques in 1941, taking jurisdiction of about 70% (27,000 of the island's 33,000 acres) of Vieques, which it was used as a training area (target practice with live ammunition and war games). As a result, Vieques has inherited a legacy of toxic pollution. In May of 1999, the U.S. Navy admitted that it had tested radioactive depleted uranium shells in the island. Many in the island blame the high cancer rate (26 percent over Puerto Rico's average) on the Navy's pollution."
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Great statistics here:\nhttp://www.cancer.org/docroot/STT/stt_0.asp\n\nhttp://www.postgradmed.com/issues/2004/10_04/mirshahidi.htm\n\nAnd this one looks quite promising:\nhttp://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1200808\n\nBest of luck!
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I work in cancer research, so I know a bit about the statistics.\n\nIt will depend on the stage at diagnosis.  If it's stage I or II, it's possible.  Stage III is unlikely, and stage IV has a very poor prognosis - usually those who are diagnosed at stage IV only have a few months to live.\n\nI hope that this person has had an early diagnosis - cancer is a horrible thing - I wish your friend the best.
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Here is a good place to learn about cancer.
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It is possible that chronic problems in the thyroid/tonsils can lead to cancer later in life.  It isn't definate and I don't know if there are any statistical numbers out there to give you a percentage chance of this happening.
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Not only do you smaoke more but you tend to pull the smokke deeper into your lungs and keep it there.  So any cancers you might develop are more likely to be malignant and inoperable.
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Yes, It is due to activation of oncogenes or external carcinogenic agents. These genes are present in all higher animals. Development of cancer is one of the related sign of aging also.
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Yes, and it may eventually casue skin cancer.  Proven fact.
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Not true. And even if you got prostate cancer, it's usually treated very easily. sometimes they don't bother to treat it at all in older men because it progresses so slowly.
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Matt and Bert are both correct but there are so many factors.  Some kinds of cancer seems to "run" in families.  Recent things I've read indicate that if all men lived to be 80 years old almost all of them would have prostate cancer.  Many kinds of cancer seem to be affected by poor diet, though not directly caused by it.  Smoking and other pollution and chemicals in the environment seem to have an effect.  People who are obese seem to be more likely to get certain kinds of cancer.\n\nThe bottom line is that there is no simple answer to your question.  Do some internet searches for differnt kinds of cancer and you'll get more specific information.
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It depends on the person and there is no ratio for this. My dad smoked all his life and died at the age of 84 but not from lung cancer. My mom died of lung cancer when she was 65 and she smoked all her life as well. You'll never know. However, smoking causes other types of cancer such as pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, cancer of the throat, the mouth and esophagus. Smoking causes Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Decease including emphysema, which is not reversible. Smoking causes strokes as well. See it is not all about the lungs it is much more involved. Set a quitting date and do it, it is never to late.