What is the reason for occurence of cancer??

Question

hi pals.. i wanted to know why does cancer form?? how it is formed?? and why will it form at specific places in the body?? what is the reason for it form in those places only??

Answer 1

Sandyboy,

There are about 200 different types of cancer affecting all the different body tissues.  What affects one body tissue may not affect another.  For example, tobacco smoke that you breathe in may help to cause lung cancer.  Over exposing your skin to the sun could give you a melanoma on your leg.  But the sun won't give you lung cancer and smoking won't give you melanoma. Apart from infectious diseases, most illnesses are 'multifactorial'.  Cancer is no exception.  Multifactorial means that there are many factors involved.  In other words, there is no single cause for any one type of cancer. The factors involved in “cancer” are many and include, Carcinogens. Age. Genetic make up. The immune system. Diet. Day to day environment. Viruses.

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I add a link with some details of this subject

http://causeofcancer.org/

Hope this helps

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Answer 2

Certain factors - genetic,environmental have affect cells in body & cause mutations.This can lead to cancer.Heredity has a role in some cancers.Smoking has important role

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Answer 3

Any unhealed wound/injury, over a longer period of time is the source of cancer. In an unhealed wound/ulcer, the immune system strives to fight out the infection and the injured cells convert themselves into pus. if pus formation is continuous,  these putrified  cells mutate into cancer cells.

Nagative thinking, regular consumption of deep freezed meat/fish after deep fry, drinks with overdose of insecticides,stored/packed perishable foods in aluminium foils, hormonal imbalance shall act as spring board for the growth of malignant cells/cancer cells.   but, alternative medicine options are available even for cancer and HIV/AIDS too.Nothing to be panic with best compliments from www.saioam.com

Answer 4

The word "cancer" is an umbrella term for many different malignancies caused by different things.  The specific area/organ affected has to do with the type (and cause) of the abberancy.

Compare the occurrence of skin cancer with Strep infection:  skin cancer affects skin and often the underlying tissue. It does not affect the brain.  Streptococcal infection usually affects the throat and/or upper respiratory system, not a skin wound.

Answer 5

Cancer happens when normal cells change so that they grow in an uncontrolled way. This uncontrolled growth causes a tumour to form.

Nobody knows what causes this to happen.

That's the most frightening thing about cancer - nobody knows what causes most cancers. Cancer affects the healthy and the unhealthy alike. Smoking has been linked to lung and some other cancers and excessive sun exposure to skin cancers. Up to 10% of cancers are hereditary. Other than that, not a whole lot is known...

You already have a suggestion that diet is responsible for cancer; there is no food or diet that has been proven to cause or contribute to cancer - or to cure or treat it either.

It's often less frightening for people who haven't had cancer to 'blame the victim' - that is, to blame cancer on avoidable lifestyle factors like bad diet, stress, lack of exercise etc - than it is for them to accept that cancer is a largely random disease that can strike any of us at any time.

The link you've been given in the first answer is particularly unhelpful as it refers to thoroughly discredited ideas about alkaline and acid foods. This article gives the facts: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRela...

Many of us who have been diagnosed with cancer believed that our healthy diets and lifestyles would protect us. Now we know better.

Answer 6

Cancer forms from the mutation of otherwise healthy cells.  Most of the time when cells mutate, our immune systems destroy them.  In cases of cancerous cells, they mutate and then spread so fast that our immune systems can't keep up with them or our immune systems aren't strong enough for whatever reason to destroy them in many cases.   Cancer can and will occur in just about every organ in the body and even in our blood.   Cancer can even occur in the heart although it is EXTREMELY unlikely and is the most unlikely place for cancer to develop.  So basically, cancer doesn't just occur in certain places in the body, it can and does occur anywhere in the body.

Answer 7

http://www.healthmad.com/Nutrition/Preve...

read the link - it talks about how you can prevent cancer through diet - therefore it suggest some cancers are diet related!

certain types of tissues are more succeptable to abnormal growth...

also as we have more and more unnatural chemicals in our lives we open the door for more and more cancers

eg. car exhaust, cigarette smoke, candles, perfumes.