Would Any One Agree, That We Are Born With Cancer.... And?!


Question: Would Any One Agree, That We Are Born With Cancer.... And.?
And it lays dormant inside of us. Then something we do in our life Wakes It Up, or triggers it.?
My Daddy Passed Away from Cancer & he did everything right when taking care of his health. However, in his younger years , (being a Marine) he did his share of drinking and smoking... HE QUIT, COLD TURKEY both of them around the age of 40 and then became a health nut! Proper diet, exercise, positive view on life, the whole nine...ONLY to die @ the very young age of 59. (If he had known this..he would @ least, just kept smoking. He said he was a meany when drunk, but, he loved his Lucky Strikes!) They (doctors/experts) say that once you quit you add MANY YEARS TO YOUR LIFE :) !! YEAH RIGHT!!!!

Because of his new look on life after quitting those things, only to get cancer and leave us..It has caused me to believe that we are all born with some type of dormant cancer gene, that is triggered to wake up during the course of our life by some type of activity we perform, whether it be smoking or something else.
Any body have an opinion on this.? PLEASE.?Health Question & Answer


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hmmm...I am trying to think of an animal without bones, I can't can you.?

Oh well, I was in a bookstore (my favorite thing to do) and was checking out current books on cancer (never had before my wife got it) and saw one book that was written by a doctor (not an oncologist).

He had cancer and as a doctor started to research his cancer. He stated in the book that cancer is in the body and something happens that triggers it to start growing. Well, it scared me so much ( seen what my wife is going through) that I put it down like it was poison and left.

So, I agree with your statement.

I just watched the movie last night called "The Bucket List". It was a great movie staring two of my favorite actors that both was diagnosed with cancer. Each given about six months to live.

One was very rich and they made a list of things they wanted to do before they died. It was a fun movie, but sad. I am not sure ordinary people can afford a "Bucket List". Mine would be too expensive.

Sorry, off the track. I agree with you and pray nothing triggers the disease in us. Amen!Health Question & Answer

No, what you said is something I completely disagree.

Cancers are not talents, people do not just simply posses it. They are like skills that everyone has the potential to acquire.

Cancers are not in genes, since two cancer parents, via the genes will create a cancer child.

Cancers are cells gone wild. All cells has the potential to be cancerous. If proper trigger is given to the cells, the cell itself will become your worst nightmare, they become cancerous.Health Question & Answer

Well there's the thought that if you've had a family past with cancer then you're more open to having cancer. But then some people say that cancer can come from negative thinking, but that's a spiritual side of things, and I totally believe in the spiritual side.Health Question & Answer

I once heard that we all have cancer cells in us,and sometimes they stay dormant and some open up and give us cancer.I lost my sister,and my dad to that horrible diease.I I pray that things in life go better for you.Im so sorry for your loss.JDHealth Question & Answer

In addition to Spree's excellent answer, Lucky Strikes are among the worst cigarettes to smoke, as they are filterless.Health Question & Answer

hi sorry bout ur dad.
no were not born with anything like cancer
thats bullshit. sorry :lHealth Question & Answer

All animals. especially those with bone, are born with a predisposition to cancer, because the body is programmed to replicate cells.

When the instructions for replicating cells goes haywire, either through genetics or through an environmental factor, we get cancer. Cancer being a proliferation of abnormal cells.

My own father died of cancer when I was 11. He had colon cancer when my mom was 6 mos pregnant with me, and liver cancer which took him 12 years later.

My grandmother had oral cancer which metastasized and took her after about 8 years of fighting. My grandmother dipped snuff (chewing tobacco), which was at one time very popular for women in the South to do. Though the snuff very likely caused her cancer. which led to her palate, eye, jaw and part of her tongue being removed, NO ONE deserves to get cancer, no matter what they did in their life which may or may not have precipitated it.

My mom, though, is so far, a survivor of both colon and breast cancer.

One thing I know for sure, is that none of knows when our time is up. We don't always know what gives us an extension on life or what might cause us to have an early death, although in many many cases we do. I do know that when I live more healthy I feel better, but this may not be true for everyone.

In my father's case, where he had colon cancer and then lived another 12 years, we attribute his extended life on the care he received for his colon. Sometimes if a person has an extension, it may be due to a life change.

Scientists do know that there are certain cancers that can be inherited, such as certain types of breast cancer and colon cancer, and your dna can be tested to see if you have that gene. And even if you have that gene, you may or may not develop cancer. Maybe you've seen commercials about the BRAC testing, for one of the genes responsible for certain types of breast cancer.

I'm one for letting people live how they choose, as long as it doesn't interfere with anyone else's lives. So if someone wants to continue to smoke, they should, as long as they are informed, consenting and an adult.

I'm so sorry about your father's death.

I hope you find peace in his memory.Health Question & Answer

Cancer specialist MD answer - Your dad was not born with his cancer.
When we say that quitting smoking adds years to your life, that is if you survive 20 years after smoking cessation without developing a smoking related cancer.
Since you do not tell us, I'll guess that your dad had one of the types of lung cancer.
The damage from tobacco smoke was done by the time he stopped smoking Lucky Strikes "cold turkey" at age 40. It may take many years for a cancer to grow from one cell to the billions of cells that can be detected. [ One billion cancer cells forms a mass only the size of a marble - this causes no symptoms and is difficult to pick up with screening x-ray examinations - and by the time the cancer has reached a billion cells it has already gone through perhaps 70% of its course.] By the time a lung cancer grows to a size large enough to cause symptoms or show up on chest x-ray studies, it is usually too advanced to cure. Only 1 in 7 people diagnosed with lung cancer survive 5 years from diagnosis - and that is because the disease in in its last stages by the time it is found.

You cannot go back and stop your dad from smoking the 23 years or so before he quit at age 40. If he smoked a little over a pack a day, he smoked perhaps 200,000 Lucky Strikes. There are thought to be at least 60 known carcinogens in tobacco smoke. 20 plus years of smoking is a significant risk for DNA damage caused by any of these chemical carcinogenic agents.

People are in some cases born with a genetic susceptibility to some forms of malignancies. Some are more susceptible to carcinogenic agents - chemicals or viruses - than others.

Sorry you lost your dad. I lost mine 3 years ago. I understand how it feels.

Added note - a Canadian study showed that 1 in 6 men who have a history of chronic smoking developed lung cancers. So chronic smoking is a form of long term Russian Roulette.
From Can J Public Health. 1994 Nov-Dec;85(6):385-8.
Male smokers - lifetime risk of lung cancer is 1 in 6
Female smokers

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