Cancer, a disease that claims the lives of millions of individuals each year. Almost everyone in the world seems to be familiar or knows a loved one or friend with cancer these days. Cancer is so common that nearly 7.6 million people die from it around the world each year, and the number is progressively getting larger. The main question in today’s time is “Why doesn’t everyone get cancer?” Studies show that lifestyle, genetic disposition, and chance are reasons that people do get cancer. Lifestyle is defined as a way in which a person lives his or her life. Your lifestyle can consist of your diet and how healthy or unhealthy you eat, or how you chose to live a happy or unhappy life. Smoking is a big lifestyle decision that is very likely
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The Newsweek Website tells us that “even if people from other parts of the world stayed where they were but adapted to a U.S. lifestyle habit, their rate of prostate, colon, and breast cancer would increase”(Cancer). The question arose that what is it about the way we live that gives us a risk to so many different types of cancer. The culprit seems to be our diet. Studies have been based on tobacco, and smoking that researchers are just now understanding how important ones diet is to protect us against …show more content…
Klein shed some evidence on cancer resistance mechanisms that many individuals seem to have that keeps them safe from cancer. He states in his research that there may be an alternative concept to cancer and that perhaps most people have a strong resistance mechanism. Basically he states that maybe these resistance mechanisms have the ability to reduce cancerous cells and sort of “nip cancer in the bud”. Klein says, “It is possible and even likely that evolution has provided our species with highly efficient cancer resistance mechanisms”(How). Evolution is not normally thought about when talking about cancer, but what if we as humans are evolving to maybe someday are able to defeat cancerous cells on our
The Newsweek Website tells us that “even if people from other parts of the world stayed where they were but adapted to a U.S. lifestyle habit, their rate of prostate, colon, and breast cancer would increase”(Cancer). The question arose that what is it about the way we live that gives us a risk to so many different types of cancer. The culprit seems to be our diet. Studies have been based on tobacco, and smoking that researchers are just now understanding how important ones diet is to protect us against …show more content…
Klein shed some evidence on cancer resistance mechanisms that many individuals seem to have that keeps them safe from cancer. He states in his research that there may be an alternative concept to cancer and that perhaps most people have a strong resistance mechanism. Basically he states that maybe these resistance mechanisms have the ability to reduce cancerous cells and sort of “nip cancer in the bud”. Klein says, “It is possible and even likely that evolution has provided our species with highly efficient cancer resistance mechanisms”(How). Evolution is not normally thought about when talking about cancer, but what if we as humans are evolving to maybe someday are able to defeat cancerous cells on our