Suspected Causes

We do not know very much about cancer, except that it is instrumental in destroying many lives. We know that cancer is a condition that is described as a rapid and erratic cellular division and growth in the body. All cells divide and reproduce, but they do it in a controlled manner. Because we do not know why this happens, we cannot say that we know what causes cancer. Consequently, we cannot tell you what to stay away from to avoid the chance of cancer developing in your body. Recent research has even suggested that our bodies all have the beginning of cancer, just waiting for some "trigger" to set its uncontrolled progress into action.

What we DO know is that there are certain risks associated with cancer. We are sure about some of them, and we are testing others. There are some other suspected risks that probably need to be tested, but have not attracted the attention of enough of the medical community to get the necessary funding for the testing to get started yet. Unfortunately, there are many stories about political agendas and business interests "clouding" or blocking the release of some of the results of tests, or preventing the tests from taking place at all.

Jeff Rockel has contributed an article that describes a book that cautions us to pay more attention to possible risks from the clothing that we wear. Jeff has written an excellent review of the book, "Dressed To Kill". You may want to read Jeff's review.

If we cannot prevent cancer, then maybe we can keep a close eye on our body and find it before it gets big enough to kill us. We can personally do a skin check, a testicular self-exam, or a breast self-exam. Although we do not provide them here, write to us at Ken@BreastNotes.com if you want information on the skin check or the testicular self exam. Otherwise, you can easily check out how to do a breast self-exam right here.

Some risk factors cannot be avoided, such as being female or going through menarche (first menstruation) at an early age. However, we may be able to modify some of them, and that might actually lower our chance of getting cancer. Click here to read about those Risk Factors.