Is everyone born with a type of cancer?
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No. Cancer is due to genetic changes (mutations) that develop in cells when they divide. Most of these changes get repaired at the cellular level but some are not. If the change makes the cell behave and grow abnormally then this is cancer. Lots of environmental factors increase the risk of mutations or genetic changes including toxins in cigarette smoke - this is why cigarettes cause cancer.
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NO  This is something society is pushing around. Do this and do that and this will happen. Heck no one ever knows what will happen or when.\n  Children out of the womb have cancer, from parents who did not smoke, my great grandparents and grandparents lived to very rich old ages with no cancers of any kind and they smoked, quite a bit actually. Those that I know that never smoked a day  in their lives are running around with one cancer afer another.\n It is the enviroment.\n Sorry didn't mean to sound off, but I get so upset with the self righteous behavior and attitudes in this world. Always trying to tell me and others what we should or should not do.
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There are many different kinds of cancer.  The accumulated effects of repeated sunburn/sunexposure can cause skin cancers.  Heavy drinking & alcoholism can cause pancreatic and liver cancers.  Smoking/second-hand smoke can cause lung cancer.  Over-exposure to radiation can cause cancer.  Existing cancers can cause other cancers.  It would take far too long to list all the causes and possible causes.  Some days I feel that everything causes cancer.\n\nAs far as prevention, there's no guarantee that anything you do will prevent it.  But you can reduce the chances.  Eat healthy, reduce or avoid red meat, moderate or no alcohol, don't smoke or linger around second-hand smoke, stay active and exercise.  Stay out of the sun as much as possible and wear sunscreen/block.  Any search on cancer prevention will give a long list of things you should and should not do.  But in the end, if you're genetically programmed to get it....\n\nDon't spend the rest of your life worrying about it.  Use common sense, live a healthy lifestyle and enjoy the life you have.
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There isn't just one cause for cancer and that is one of the reasons it is so difficult to eradicate. Anyone, at any age from fetus to the elderly can get cancer, so it is more than environmental or stress or anything that mere humans have control over. It is very easy to blame the enrironment or the patient for 'getting cancer', but it is not quite that simple.\n\nFor example, my son has a rare abdominal sarcoma with no known cause . . it is considered a childhood cancer because of the primitive nature of the cancer cells. There are some unusual features to this cancer, it is almost predominately boys in the second decade of life who are affected. Why? Why would a cancer predominately affect young boys? It may be genetic (no conclusive evidence to prove this, and no connection between the patients) or it may have to do with hormones or testosterone, since the cancer presents itself during 'growth spurts'. But, we really do not know. Another oddity about the cancer is that it shares the genetic features of two other childhood cancers . . in other words it is a chimeric cancer . . it melded two other forms of cancer into a new cancer. Which may indicate that cancer has the ability to change and transform.\n\nI do not believe that there is anything anyone can do to totally prevent cancer at this point. Remaining healthy by eating properly and exercising will give you the strenght to fight a cancer, but I don't think it will prevent it. Cutting back on addictions such as smoking, drinking, and other unhealthy lifestyles helps also. Still . . people who have never smoked a day in their life can develop lung cancer. A fetus can develop cancer in the womb. Month old babies can die from cancer. No age group, sex, or race  is immune.\n\nThe best prevention is probably to become aware of your own body and if your a parent, the signs of cancer in children. Examine your body, teach your children to become aware of their bodies, look for changes, or spots, and report any suspicious lumps or bumps immediately. Parents should learn to listen to their children and recongnize the warning signs. The family doctor also needs to be brought up to speed on recognizing the early signs of cancer. Early detection is the best prevention that we have at the moment.
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I don't know about all know diseases but they can't get cancer. We don't know why but for a couple of years scientist are studing shark to find a cure for cancer in humans.
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the kind that causes cancer
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Not at all-  any type of cancer is not transmittable from one person to another.  Now, if you have some type of infection it is possible to infect your partner, but that is it.
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I always thought Leukemia was an interesting topic. Cancer of the blood is very different from other cancers.
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yes it can be.make sure you keep your gyn appts.\nyour life style is a big plus for not getting that type of cancer!!!\nwtg;not many like you any more.
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I am a Cancer, and I find that only about half of what I read about Cancer's is true for me. Although, I am close to the cusp of Gemini and I also pick up some of those traits.
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Probably the smallest country.  \nDue to diet, environmental, and hereditary conditions etc ,. each country may have different cancers that are more predominant.  Animals get cancer too and  receive the same types of treatment.  It appears to be everywhere.
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Cancer is essentially a disease of cell division. Uncontrolled cell division can have many causes, and can happen in any type of cell in the body, but it usually results from defects or damage in one or more of the genes involved in cell division.\n\nIf these genes become damaged (mutated) in some way, for example by exposure to cigarette smoke or ultraviolet radiation, the cell can start to divide uncontrollably. These defective cells can multiply to form a lump of abnormal tissue called a tumor.
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Women with positive family history(mother,sister...)\nNulliparus women(those who didn't have children)\nwomen over 45 years of age.\nall those and many more create a high risk groups for developping breast cancer.
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No. Readers Digest or National Geographic, not sure which one has asked for volunteers to send in swab for genetic mapping. Many people have responded. It is only a matter of time now as it is before we all know where in the world we originated from. Discrimination occurs all too frequently for other reasons, why add one more? Anyway environment has just as much to due with genes mutating and causing cancer. Look at articles on "Chernobyl" 10 years after.
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There are many different forms of cancer and many different causes. Cancer develops from mutations in the genes that regulate cell division. The mutations silence the genes that ordinarily monitor replicating DNA for chemical errors. The affected cells have no built in brakes to halt cell division. As the abnormal mass of clees,called malignant tumor, grows, blood bessel form to supply the tumor with the nutrients it needs to support its growth.Eventually, the tumor invades healthy tissue and may metastasize.\n\nBladder cancer is associated with smoking cigs and alcohol.So is mouth, throat and esophagus cancers. Lung-smoking.Liver-infection with hepatitis virus,alcohol,iron overload,toxicity.Kidney and Pancreatic and lung cancer-high intakes of red meat(pan), cig smoking and air pollution.Prostate-high intakes of fats,esp.saturated fats from red meats and possibly milk products.Ovarian-high lactose intake from milk products and oral contraceptive use. Stomach-high intakes of smoke or salt preserved foods, smoking, infection with ulcer causing bacteria or refined flour or starch.Colorectal-high intakes of fat(saturated), red meat, alcohol, and supplemental iron.Low intakes of fiber, folate,viatmin D and veggies.
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Having gone through treatment for breast cancer this yr. I spent quite a few hrs. in treatment & at the clinic waiting to see Drs. etc. One thing I learned cancer has no preferences. Men, women, babies is strollers. People from every ethenic background, & colour were there. Some born in our country, some from nearly every corner of the earth. All had cancer one type or the other. God Love the babies & kids & teenagers. That sickened me. I am older. I have lived a life that I do not regret. But them. They haven't had a chance to live yet. That hurts. I survived & I'm well & healthy again. But I can never forget them. .  Just what I saw & experienced.
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There is a type of cancer that can originate, albeit rare, in the heart.  Angiosarcoma is a type of cancer that begins in the lining of blood vessels.  This type of tumor tends to be aggressive, recur locally, and spread widely. It can originate anywhere in the body but is well known to arise in skin, soft tissue, liver, breast, spleen, bone, lung and heart.