| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 4/24/2007 4:40:47 PM | Type CureSearch in google...I found this website very informative. It has alot on pediatric cancer and cancer research in general. *In common language not medical jargon*
Also American Cancer Society was very informative.
Goodluck
P.S- I found that studies are still inconclusive but both genetic and environemental factors were found to have significant relationships with risk of cancer. | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 4/25/2007 8:30:16 PM | The genetic risk for lung cancer is exquisitely low. Regular tobacco smoking is associated with markedly increased risks for lung cancer later in life, not family genetics.
If you do have a family history of lung cancer, then you have a 95% chance of developing it. Sounds scary, huh? This is coming from a epidemiology report early this year.
When an epidemiology study reports a risk like this it means that if you have a family history of lung cancer, as some do, then your risk is higher than someone without a family history. But if you are a nonsmoker, if you didn't have a family history your risk of lung cancer would be about 1-2% over your life time. So, if that is increased 95% because of your family history, it means the risk is now 2-4%--still pretty low and much lower than if you become a smoker. | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 4/28/2007 7:17:58 AM | My grandpa's both died of lung cancer 1 smoked/one did not
2 of my aunts died of cancer,neither smokers
My uncle died of prostate cancer at the age of 41 never smoked
my mom was diagnosed with cervical cancer 17 years ago..but beat it (smoked for 20 years.
I do not know if it's genetic or not but I do think that some families have a sleeper cell that can be awakened at any time. | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 4/28/2007 8:49:00 AM | If you have a family history of certain cancers, and you lead the same lifestyle, then the likelihood of you developing those cancers is increased.
Zin45: Interesting stats. Do you have a link to the study?
I do not know if it's genetic or not but I do think that some families have a sleeper cell that can be awakened at any time.
We all have "sleeper cells"...their called genes, and are awakened by our environment, food being the primary activator.
Your body is an engine....your stomach (and lungs) are the gas tank...what you put into the gas tank affects the engine. | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 5/18/2007 1:00:21 PM | UPDATE: Well...I just recently went to see the doctor to check for cervical cancer and the doc asks me if I smoke...huh? What does whether or not you smoke have to do with "cervical cancer"?
Anyways, it will be about a week before I get those test results back...but just curious as to why he would ask that question? | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 5/18/2007 4:36:10 PM | Smoking and HPV (human papilloma virus) are linked to cervical cancer risk in women.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=77622 | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 12/28/2007 9:16:05 AM | Let's hope not. Already had an entire side of my family wiped out by it and lived common-law with someone who seems to have the same family patterns...they're dead too.
Got home from a friend's house last night and had decided to jump on his do without smoking pot for the month of January New Year's Resolution. Was feeling pretty upbeat.
But there was a message on my phone and today I found out I have to go to a specialist at Sunnybrook Hospital next week coz my pap smear came back with changes on it. So it's going to be another rough week of spending too much time online.
The underlying problem has been going on for more than two years so I'm a bit freaked and a little p!ssed off because until I know what's going on it's not only best to put having a boyfriend on hold (could live with that) but also running out and trying to make additional employment plans.
Can't even post anything about how I feel on Facebook either coz my kid could read it whereas on here I don't know anybody whose life would be affected by me needing an outlet.
I'm hoping for the best but my best friend has a nursing background and she's been telling me for months that she knows exactly what's the matter -- had it herself. Now I just want her to be happy instead of right...she can't take too much more bad news.
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 12/30/2007 2:49:07 PM | | A vast majority of cancers are due to diet and secondly environment. | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 12/31/2007 1:03:39 AM |
yes it is genetic and enviremental
Sure....if you eat the same foods and live in the same environments as your parents...and theirs....it may seem that way....but really...all you're doing is repeating what they did...thus the outcome will most likely be the same.
A vast majority of cancers are due to diet and secondly environment.
I agree....somewhat.....
I would have used the words "all" and "in conjunction with"... | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 12/31/2007 9:34:12 AM | I only provided an EXAMPLE of how genetics can be involved. Please note that different cancers are due to different misspelled "words", and it can be one letter of the word misspelled, or several letters of that word, or it can take a combination of several misspelled words to cause that particular cancer. The rules are different for different cancers.
What I meant in my example was that the generations before you pass on the chance to get cancer, not the actual cancer itself. Your parents don't have to have cancer to pass the misspelled words on. Using my previous example, if your grandparents have this word misspelled at two places, then they would still be healthy. But that misspelled word gets passed on to you, and you only need to get one extra wrong spelling to get cancer. How to get cancer then? These words in your body are stored inside your cells. And cells reproduce to make new cells, while old cells die - very fast turnover in most cases. Everytime a cell reproduces to make new cells, it has to replicate those "words" (think of making a new baby - you need to make new eyes, nose ears...). If a mistake occurs in the replication process (eg due to smoking) and is not corrected immediately by the spellchecker, you get stuck with the wrong word from then on. Words get misspelled all the time. Most of the time, it occurs in a place where it doesn't matter. However, if that critical letter gets misspelled, the word can tell your body to produce, for example, lots of breast cells and you get breast cancer.
I know it is a complicated concept. Does that answer your question?
(This process of getting cancer when you're 50 is different from getting cancer as a newborn baby. An explanation would require another paragraph.)
actually this was quite insightful.
I would also like to add, while it is environmental, IF your family say, has a habit of doing a particular thing (smoking, drinking, living in a particular area) they will pass on their habits to you as a child as much as they pass on their genetic traits. That is why descendants have a higher risk of getting cancer if their parents had it.
(This observation is from my experiences in genetic algorithms, a search technique in computing inspired by evolutionary biology such as inheritance, mutation, selection, and crossover) | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 1/2/2008 12:33:12 AM | There is no such thing as inherited diseases. Illnesses run in families because we inherit the dreams and fears of our ancestors during conception as well as during our upbringing. DNA is just a reflection of these thoughts. I know this sounds radical, but how else can the medical field sit on their high horse and claim they have the only answers?
Believe me, I can argue this until I'm blue in the face. We can create anything with our minds. Everything is an illusion. If you hold no beliefs, then you are submitting yourself to the status quo. | |
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| Cancer: Is it genetic?
Posted: 1/3/2008 2:43:31 PM | This should be cute. Getting ready for my appointment at Sunnybrook tomorrow and decided to put myself in an upbeat frame of mind by shaving my legs and various other at least I'm well groomed tricks.
But the men's shaver I bought myself for Christmas because 9 times out of 10 men's products are more reliable must be geared for the peach fuzz set. Hope the doc doesn't do a double take at the bald spot running up one side of my leg. | |
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