Causes of Cancer

Here you will find out what can cause cancer.

Although there are many things that are thought to cause cancer, like cellular phones, there are only two things that cause cancer often and have been proven to do so. These are smoking and rapid dieting.

Smoking

About 30% of all cancer-related deaths in America are caused solely by smoking, making it the biggest cancer-related killer. Smoking creates carcinogens (chemicals) in your body that damage and mutate genes, which in turn, form what is commonly known as a tumor. Getting a tumor from smoking has a bigger chance of being cancerous, since there are a lot of mutated genes in a smokers’ body. Smoking (especially smoking cigarettes, because of the users’ likeliness to smoke a pack a day) can cause any and every type of cancer, but the following are the most common: lungs, diaphragm (a muscle that aids in breathing), esophagus (food tube), trachea (wind pipe), bladder, pancreas, stomach, liver, colon, rectum, and kidneys. Take note that the younger you are when you start smoking, the greater risk you’re at. Smoking at a young age makes you twice as likely to get cancer in the bladder, but eight times more likely to get cancer in a lung. Passive smoke, or second-hand smoke, is not as cancer-causing as active smoking. But contrary to this fact, thousands of people die from passive smoke each year. The yearly deaths due to second-hand smoke is equal to the deaths of outdoor air pollution.

Diet

Diet is the only cause of cancer that is even remotely close to tobacco smoke. Red meat in particular is cancer-causing. It can normally give someone cancer in the colon or the rectum. IF you diet and eat meat, your chances of getting cancer are greatly increased. That’s basically all there is to know about dieting. There is a lot of other information about cancer and dieting, but these ideas are always being changed and denied. So basically, this information is what most scientists and doctors agree on.