Can I ask a question?

Tony and Siobhan said:

I'm asking this question in the hope that I am not accused
of stirring the pot....or being a troll 🙂

Is there a way of preventing cancer?

I think sometimes it just happens, that's why it's important
to go for recommended screenings and report anything new to
your doctor. J Here's some Prevention links (tips) you can
read up on cdc.govindex.htmOpen ↗ Cancer
Prevention and Control

bccancer.bc.cadefault.htmOpen ↗
The Waddell Project: Primary Prevention and Education
in the Community

cancer.umn.eduriskred2.htmlOpen ↗ Cancer
Risk Reduction: Diet and Cancer

preventcancer.orgpreventcancer.orgOpen ↗ The Cancer Research and
Prevention Foundation, focuses its energies and resources
on those cancers-including lung, breast, prostate,
colorectal, cervical, skin and testicular-that can be
prevented through lifestyle changes or detection and
treatment in their early stages.

cancer.umn.eduskin3.htmlOpen ↗ Skin
Cancer Prevention

vh.orgcolorfulplOpen ↗
ate/index.html The Colorful Plate Reduce Your Cancer
Risk Cookbook

cancer.umn.eduposter.htmlOpen ↗ 8 Ways
to WIN Poster

nfcr.orgnfcr prevention chart.htmlOpen ↗
NFCR's Cancer Prevention Chart

Depends upon the type of cancer. There are well-known ways
reduce the risk of lung cancer, colon cancer. But there are
many others for which there doesn't seem to be any known way
to do the same (brain, leukemia, myeloma, lymphoma, etc.).

Larry E.

Tony and Siobhan said:

I'm asking this question in the hope that I am not accused
of stirring the pot....or being a troll 🙂

Is there a way of preventing cancer? Please don't give me
any [censored] for asking this question please. It's just that
we talk so much of destroying the cancer that is there as
opposed to preventing it! I'm all for destroying it as
well with drugs and other forms!

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Tony and Siobhan said:

I'm asking this question in the hope that I am not accused
of stirring the pot....or being a troll 🙂

Is there a way of preventing cancer? Please don't give me
any [censored] for asking this question please. It's just that
we talk so much of destroying the cancer that is there as
opposed to preventing it! I'm all for destroying it as
well with drugs and other forms!

It's not a bad question. The problem is, it's not just one
question, but it's many questions, one for each cancer.
Cancer is not just a single disease. For instance, there are
well-characterized ways to decrease the risk of colon cancer
and, of course, lung cancer. However, there are many other
cancers for which such strategies either don't exist or
haven't been discovered yet. Whether you realize it or not,
what you ask is an exceedingly complex question that can
only be answered for a few cancers and for which, in the
majority of cancers, the answer is not known.

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|"If you cannot listen to the answers, why do
|you inconvenience me with questions?"

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Quoted message said:

I'm asking this question in the hope that I am not accused
of stirring the pot....or being a troll 🙂

Is there a way of preventing cancer? Please don't give me
any [censored] for asking this question please. It's just that
we talk so much of destroying the cancer that is there as
opposed to preventing it! I'm all for

destroying

Quoted message said:

it as well with drugs and other forms!

Preventing? No Reducing significantly the risk? Yes. Don't
smoke, don't get fat, don't get old.

Larry said:

Depends upon the type of cancer. There are well-known ways
reduce the risk of lung cancer, colon cancer. But there
are many others for which there doesn't seem to be any
known way to do the same (brain, leukemia, myeloma,
lymphoma, etc.).

Larry E.

I could be wrong, but wouldn't good old advice apply. Eat
well and in moderation. In more detail might be to avoid
toxins and try to limit exposure to free radicals (caused by
various eating habits, such as excess quantities of some
types of lipids). Perhaps take precautions to neutralize
free radicals (a controversial area to be sure, but
supposedly this is the realm of antioxidants ... some of
which are rumorred to protect cancer cells as well).

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Thomas T. Veldhouse said:

Larry said:

Depends upon the type of cancer. There are well-known
ways reduce the risk of lung cancer, colon cancer. But
there are many others for which there doesn't seem to be
any known way to do the same (brain, leukemia, myeloma,
lymphoma, etc.).

Larry E.

I could be wrong, but wouldn't good old advice apply. Eat
well and in moderation. In more detail might be to avoid
toxins and try to limit exposure to free radicals (caused
by various eating habits, such as excess quantities of
some types of lipids). Perhaps take precautions to
neutralize free radicals (a controversial area to be sure,
but supposedly this is the realm of antioxidants ... some
of which are rumorred to protect cancer cells as well).

Such steps may help, of course, but there can be no
guarantee that if one does this he will be cancer-free.

Cancer is a very complex group of diseases -- we have
learned much, but we have far to go.

-Kwantem- -Seminoma Survivor -- 4 years!-