Do you believe that everything causes cancer?

Question

Do you believe that everything causes cancer?

Answer 1

no. a malfunction in the rapid division of cells does.  

Answer 2

I think it helps to have good genes for one but I do think that a lot can cause cancer. Thats why there was no cancer years ago. There were no tv dinners, processed foods, microwaves, all the chemicals in everything. It's all about money, they don't care what they do to us. At least now there a lot of natural products coming out.

Answer 3

No.  your body is constantly creating new cells.  sometimes the randomness of nature causes this cell creation to go wild..  Cancer.   Of course there are well known causes to cancer as well.  smoking, sun burns and tanning beds, and some drugs, create increase chance of cancer.

Take responsibility for your life, avoid risky behavior, don't worry, and enjoy life.

Answer 4

No, but that's a great Joe Jackson song ("Everything gives you cancer")

Anything that causes chronic irritation of any body tissue causes cancer in the long run, thus cigarettes, radiation, chemicals on your skin, sun, or even anything rubbing on your body can cause cancer.

Answer 5

I know that cancer happens because some of your cells grow wrong.  I also know that a healthy immune system can clean these cells out of your body.  So keeping your immune system up is very important.  I also know that chemicals, smoking, drinking, not eating well, not exercising, etc. makes your immune system lower.

Therefore, many things in our modern world may effect the possiblility of you getting cancer, but most do not CAUSE cancer.

Answer 6

Cancer's an umbrella term for over 200 different diseases, and nobody knows what causes most of them.

Smoking has been linked to lung and some other cancers, and excessive sun exposure to skin cancers. Up to 10% of cancer cases are hereditary.

Other than that, we're still pretty much in the dark about what causes cancer. But many people want reasons, they want something to blame. So they latch on to any piece of research, however small or inconclusive, that suggests that a certain thing might contribute to certain cancers. 'Might' becomes 'does', 'contribute to' becomes 'cause'. Thus many people believe that anti-perspirant causes breast cancer, on the evidence of a tiny and inconclusive study involving 20 tumours.

And the food we eat becomes another scapegoat - people overlook the fact that many healthy people eating very healthy diets  get cancer; they overlook the fact that cancer is an ancient disease that has always been with us, and they overlook the fact that cancer rates have not really risen significantly for many years.

It is not true to say, as someone here has, that there was no cancer 'years ago'; The oldest description of cancer in humans was found in an Egyptian papyrus written between 3000-1500 BC. It referred to tumours of the breast.

The oldest available specimen of a human cancer is found in the remains of skull of a female who lived during the Bronze Age (1900-1600 BC) The tumour in the woman's skull was suggestive of head and neck cancer

I once read about a tumour discovered in the fossil remains of a dinosaur, but I can’t find the reference.

If a piece of research was done whose results suggested that carrots might contribute to cancer, because several of the subjects of the research ate large numbers of carrots before their diagnosis, the media would get hold of it and the headline would be 'Carrots Cause Cancer!'; they would report that 'a study shows (or even proves) that eating carrots causes cancer'.

And so the unfounded rumours go round and become received wisdom. And there's so many of these rumours that some people conclude that anything and everything causes cancer

But the truth is, nobody knows what causes it