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Things that apparently cause cancer

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  1. tsoukase · · focus · HN ↗
    Cancer is caused by:

    - a complex interaction between hundreds of genes, which is just called 'bad luck' due its unknown nature

    - impartial immunosuppression due to stress, lack of sleep or the hundreds of other external factors. (Without the cancer fighting immune system we would get a cancer very fast, though slower than fatal infections)

    The first is barely recognizable and therefore non modifiable. We cam measure and manage only the second.

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