The main causes and approximate percentage of cancer deaths fall into 3 classes : Genetic- 20 % ; Smoking 25% (in males) ; Diet-35%, with the remainder due to various environmental factors like radiation. It is obvious to oncologists that in the case of the environmental causes like smoking and diet, the duration of exposure plays a significant role if and when such tumors will develop.
Not surprisingly such tumors are rarely found in children suggesting that genetics may play a more significant role in childhood.
Oncologists have been busy searching for such cancer genes and have already found several, e.g. breast, stomach, colon and other cancer genes, adopting various preventive measures in asymptomatic children, e.g. removal of healthy organs!
Because in children brain tumours and leukemias are more common, could their etiology still be some environmental factor that we have not discovered? like a viral agent. These could easily be introduced with the various vaccinations our children now routinely get.
I am still uncomfortable about the pandemic of AIDS and now the Ebola virus in Africa and elsewhere, Some epidemiologists have suggested the west may have introduced the AIDS pandemics with our vaccination programs for polio. I seem to recall that our polio vaccine did transmit the Simian virus 40 with our vaccination program- fortunately for us this tumor virus does not produce tutors in humans.- only in mice as I seem to recall. Could our vaccinations be responsible for some the brain tumours and/or leukemias found in children ?
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