Things You Should Know About Cancer Causes

By Cinta Esty

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Generally speaking, people have not been aware about the cancer causes factors. They lack of knowledge or hesitate to consult with some expert doctors.  Nevertheless, they do know there are cancer causes around them.

Here is an outline of cancer causes.

1.  In medical term cancer causes means chemical agent carcinogenic.

Cancer is caused by the effect of chemicals on cell growth either directly or indirectly.

It was said directly if the chemicals’ effect influent the structure of genes and information taken from the parent cell genes to young cells following. Lung cells contaminated hazardous chemicals contained in cigarette smoke is an example.

Scientific research shows the number of toxic chemicals in a cigarette is 4 million types’ toxic chemicals. The most dangerous toxic is acid cyanide. It is not directly affected the cell growth. It can influence the hormone the cells grow and disrupt the formation of this hormone. The amount of hormone can be increased or decreased, then affecting the growth of the cell line.

2. Radiation factor.

Radiation is one of the factor cancer causes. The effect of radiation on the growth of cell would disrupt the growth of new cells either directly or indirectly.

Direct effect occurs, first, when the direct radiation on cell growth causes the current cell does not change. Second, the new growth such as parent cells known as mutation. When our skin is exposed to light rays from the sun radiation in the form of ultraviolet rays,  gamma rays,  X-rays diffraction and other type of radiation. Beside from the sun’s radiation, nuclear materials can also danger to the growth of certain cells.

3. Hormonal Factors

The growth of hormone will influence the supply of growth hormone in a cell.

4. Virus factors

Basically, virus is one of cancer causes which directly come to the cell invasion. This virus influences the changes of growth. The virus here means a human cancer virus; i. e.

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV / AIDS), Herpes Virus (Kaposi’s sarcoma) and others.

5. Heredities factors

Genetically, cancer causes can be derived from parents to their child. It means the information cell growth changes brought by this group from the cell master genes to cells that will be young. This process is known as the medical term Oncogenic cancer.

The malignant tumor or breast cancer in women will be revealed in his son for about 5%.

Well…actually there are many other factors cancer causes. You can read on other articles related;  i. e. cancer stage.

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