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But cancer isn't primarily a genetic problem; it's a consequence of the way our bodies work at the cellular level. We all accumulate genetic damage over time
by gozur88 9y ago
But cancer isn't primarily a genetic problem; it's a consequence of the way our bodies work at the cellular level.
We all accumulate genetic damage over time from a variety of sources, and we'll all get cancer eventually if something else doesn't kill us first.
- zamalek 9y agoThat is the story for most people today but is not the entire story. If your mother had breast cancer then you are at a higher risk - if not for genetics that would be magic. That is why I specifically said "hereditary cancer."
- philjohn 9y agoYep, other hereditary cancer syndromes too, such as Von-Hippel Lindau, which is a mutation in a tumour suppressor gene.