Hey @everittdmickey! Would you happen to have a link to that article still around? I'd love to read it. All cancers of course come down to gene mutations and in some cases pure ''chance''. Even though there are cancers that are hugely affected by inherited genes and even some that are caused entirely by them, exogenous factors are still the major influence when it comes to cancer. You are right that on a gene level, the hands of the medical community are pretty tied at the moment.
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sorry...i don't have it.
I scan/read hundreds of article a week.
it's been a while
one more thang.
I read somewhere else (several places)
that we get hundreds of cancers (regularly)
but our immune system kills them (mostly)
Our immune system can sometimes recognise cancer cells and kill them as long as they don't overgrow in numbers. Our DNA replication enzymes actually make thousands of mistakes per day but we have correcting mechanisms. One of these is what we call Tumour Suppressor Genes. They detect faulty and potentially cancerous DNA and they prevent the cells having that DNA from multiplying. But sometimes the mutations caused by damaged DNA will deactivate the Tumour Suppressor Genes and allow for the uncontrolled growth of cancerous cells.
I'll look more into it. Genetics is an area that I'm really interested in. Thanks for your comment!