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Most cancer types 'just bad luck'


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Most types of cancer can be put down to bad luck rather than risk factors such as smoking, a study has suggested.

A US team were trying to explain why some tissues were millions of times more vulnerable to cancer than others.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...health-30641833

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The results, in the journal Science, showed two thirds of the cancer types analysed were caused just by chance mutations rather than lifestyle.

However some of the most common and deadly cancers are still heavily influenced by lifestyle.

And Cancer Research UK said a healthy lifestyle would still heavily stack the odds in a person's favour.

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all living things have cancer. although the body is usually able to remove it.

after reading the story, they recommend following the mormons, word of wisdom. no smoking, less drinking if not stopping altogether.

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Iv always viewed it like the lottery. Every day you have a chance to "win" the cancer lottery but certain life style choices make you buy more tickets each day

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We can divide and clone cells. but we yet have not figure out how to stop a cell from growing except for zapping it. Just like when a baby is fully developed the cell stopped growing that made that baby , it was activates that cell is what we got to figure out.

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Iv always viewed it like the lottery. Every day you have a chance to "win" the cancer lottery but certain life style choices make you buy more tickets each day

Your cells have a lot of repair machinery which doesn't get used unless you're at least four days into a fast. Most chemo drugs activate them without the starvation being needed. But still the humans body is capable of repairing itself by having a 2 week fast every few months.

Where it fails is if your tumour has grown so large that the cells in the middle of it have gone hypoxic (oxygen starved). Then starvation and chemo drugs have no effect because hypoxia turns on survival protection machinery inside the cancer cells. The only option then is irradiation and cutting pieces out. It may be too late if its spread throughout the body.

My advice is fast when your religion tells you too.

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We can divide and clone cells. but we yet have not figure out how to stop a cell from growing except for zapping it. Just like when a baby is fully developed the cell stopped growing that made that baby , it was activates that cell is what we got to figure out.

There's new technology out there that is allowing doctors to cure some kinds of cancer without zapping it with chemo and radiation. I work for a children's hospital and cancer research organization. Our hospital, in the last year, has cured 10 pediatric cancer cases (largely blood borne cancers) by genetically modifying a patients own blood and t-cells. This was AFTER chemo and radiation didn't work for the patient. They treated 12 patients, 10 were cured. It's actually super remarkable. Several other hospitals and research centers are working with the same treatments with similar results. It's pretty cool. They actually use a neutralized and sanitized known virus to deliver the new cancer fighting cells. It's crazy sci-fi stuff. But it's working! Currently they're using it to treat some very stubborn types of leukemia and one type of brain cancer. The Fred Hutchinson cancer research center is trying to discover if it can be somehow used to attack solid tumors. Not all genetic modification is bad apparently. haha.

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they recommend following the mormons, word of wisdom. no smoking, less drinking if not stopping altogether.

That's common sense. Hardly exclusive to Mormons.

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