Whats your opinion on cancer? So many people get it is it in the environment?

The main risk factor is age. As general health increases, people live longer and as people live longer they are more likely to get cancer. Ironically, improved health care increases cancer rates.

One of the major contributors to increase cancer patients is processed foods. Did you know being fat is more likely to give you cancer than smoking? If you want to lower your cancer risk, eat little to no processed foods, use spices, Fresh fruit and veg to make your own dishes, ie, cook from scratch more. Try to use just one or two products to clean your house, and use simple soap and water and moisturiser when cleaning your face/body....this will eliminate the over use of chemicals from your home and reduce cancer risks.

Cancer is an ancient disease that existed long, long before anything that we currently eat or anything found in the environment. People who are unfamiliar with cancer have difficulty in wrapping their brains around this simple fact . . cancer is not a new disease at all. You can read more about the history of cancer at the American Cancer Society page: http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/TheHistoryofCancer/index "he earliest evidence of cancer is found among fossilized bone tumors, human mummies in ancient Egypt, and ancient manuscripts. Bone remains of mummies have revealed growths suggestive of the bone cancer, osteosarcoma. Bony skull destruction as seen in cancer of the head and neck has been found, too. Our oldest description of cancer (although the word cancer was not used) was discovered in Egypt and dates back to about 1600 B.C. It is called the Edwin Smith Papyrus, and is a copy of part of an ancient Egyptian textbook on trauma surgery. It describes 8 cases of tumors or ulcers of the breast that were treated by cauterization, with a tool called the fire drill. The writing says about the disease, "There is no treatment." The only reason we notice cancer now is because people LIVE LONGER. In the past a person with cancer just died and no one knew about it. Today there are SURVIVORS who have lived. And as one poster mentioned, it probably has less to do with diet and the envrionment and far, far more to do with aging. Cancer can occur at any age, however the most common forms of cancer . . lung, breast, colon occur in adults over the age of 40 years old. The older you get the more likely at some point you become of getting one of the over 200 different types of cancer.

I think it is complex. In some cases environmental factors are clearly the cause. Sometimes people hit the genetic lottery. Consider this, there are so many diseases we have cured over the years, there are safety features in cars now that weren't even around 20 years ago, there is better workplace safety that there is not as much left to kill us. People don't die of TB anymore. Cancer is just a new problem to solve.

In one way or the other, most of the answers here are correct. You have cancer cells in your body now, the problem is what changes them or charges them into growing. Something in the atmosphere, the foods we eat, the objects we come in contact with are or could all be what changes these cells into growing, but not in everyone. What may happen to one, may not happen to the next person that does the same thing.This is what makes cancer such a maddening disease, no one has ever found out why the cells sometimes take a life on of their own and start growing mutant. An answer to this question will have the drug companies beating a path to your door.

its probably the technology. LIke radiation and stuff.

Age and genetics.

I totally agree with Tarkarri, Lo_Mcg and Panda. I have to add one thing. My sister is dying. Now we never gave it much thought until she developed cancer. She lives in an area where there is a toxic dump. The EPA has been working on cleaning it up for 3 yrs now with little success. My other sister, who never had cancer, would never eat any vegetables Dianne grew because of the soil. My sister had so many kinds of cancers and 3 times beat them all including 4th stage ovarian cancer. That's unheard of usually. A couple of weeks ago she was diagnosed a fourth time and this time the cancer is beating her. Her soil was tested and it is indeed toxic. So yes, environmental factors can be a cause, but age is also a huge factor. She's 63 and will not see 64. FYI, the government closed that dump years ago and I think it will take many, many more years before that area is clean. I recently found out that several of her neighbors died of cancer or were just diagnosed. It's like a little Chernobyl

There are deadly Most chemicals in the air that are produced by factors..depending on what they are making.....Most plastics..ranging from toys made in China....to shower curtain linings ....to Non-stick skillets..pots ..pans....plastic coffee pots.....bowls...drinking glasses....all made from plastic` There was a report which came out on CNN,....from a doctor which reported on the deadly toxic in the air......Look it up your discover it` There is a report put out also Cnn carried this article....on Sugar....Yes,...sugar in products ...also causes Cancer`..... and, to blow your mind....the process in which magazines pages are coasted to make them shine....can also cause cancer` cool mines put out toxic in the air the causes cancer among other things....` Read reports of interviews from people who have worked across this world who have worked in factors .....that developed cancer.....and other health problems` Check out the businesses in the place where you live.......discover what is used.....You can send things off the labs.....who can brake down what the products are made of ....and list the things that have been linked to cancer.....If you want to know````