Today I went canning for one of the greatest organizations in my opinion, THON. Much of the time I was canning I couldn’t stop thinking about why certain people get cancer. I found myself asking has cancer always been there and we’ve never been able to diagnose it until recently? Are certain people more likely to get cancer than others due to genetics? Is cancer due to people’s choice of lifestyle? Or is cancer being more prominent today because people are putting chemicals in their bodies, voluntarily or involuntarily, that have never existed due to new technologies?
I honestly think that many people don’t know the exact answer to any of these questions and I’m sure if they did there would most likely be huge advances in research of cancer in preventing it and treating it. Each one of these questions I asked myself today could be the right answer or none of them could be the right answer or even it could be a mix of all these. I will dive into these questions to try and find out which one of these questions appears to have more supporting evidence behind it.
Cancer has been around for thousands of years, however it has been becoming more and more prominent. Disease Education does a nice job explaining many of these questions and exactly what is cancer. In one of the paragraphs it states that about 80% of cancer is caused by lifestyle choices. Many things that we do throughout our lives could be affecting our bodies little by little, slowly raising the chances of our chances of developing cancerous cells. Our bodies are supposed to be able to get rid of the cancerous cells that develop into cancer later on. Many toxins we are putting into our body prevents the ability of our body to do that and get rid of those bad cells.
I think that within reading a couple of websites, the Disease Education does a good job bringing a lot of information together into one place and pointing me in the right direction to answering my questions. I have come to my own conclusion that cancer isn’t cause by one specific thing, but rather a combination of many different things. I think that people may debate exactly what the causes are of cancer or exactly what things have more of an impact on cancer than the others. This may be one of the many reasons why cancer is such a hard disease to find a cure for, because many different scientists debate and can’t come to a single conclusion as to what causes cancer.