{"id":291,"date":"2013-04-29T05:39:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T09:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2015-02-13T16:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T21:41:32","slug":"why-do-some-people-get-cancer-and-others-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/why-do-some-people-get-cancer-and-others-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Some People Get Cancer and Others Don&#8217;t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_296\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-296\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MP9002890841.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MP9002890841-200x132.jpg\" alt=\"Developing Cancer\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MP9002890841-200x132.jpg 200w, https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MP9002890841.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Developing Cancer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Men have a 1 in 2 chance of developing some sort of cancer at sometime during their lifetime and a 1 in 4 chance of dying from cancer. For women, the risk of developing cancer is 1 in 3 and the risk of dying from cancer is 1 in 5, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/cancer\/cancerbasics\/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer\">U.S. National Cancer Institute<\/a> database.<\/p>\n<p>Many factors, particularly age, sex and genetic inheritance, affect both your lifetime cancer risk and your risk of developing a specific type of cancer.\u00a0But despite the risk, there are some people who do not get cancer even when a family history of cancer exists.<\/p>\n<p>Why do some people get cancer while others don&#8217;t? That&#8217;s the new focus of an ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2013-04-16\/health\/ct-met-cancer-study-chicago-20130416_1_cancer-prevention-prostate-cancer-american-cancer-society\">American Cancer Society study<\/a> that was begun in 1950 and is\u00a0now in its third generation. Three hundred thousand people between the ages of 30 and 65 are being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.org\/research\/researchprogramsfunding\/epidemiology-cancerpreventionstudies\/ourstaff\/cancer-prevention-study-s-cps-3\">enrolled in the latest phase of the study<\/a>. Participants must be cancer-free when they join the study.\u00a0After providing an initial blood sample and completing a comprehensive\u00a0health survey, participants are sent follow-up surveys every\u00a0two years.<\/p>\n<p>The first generation study discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer. The second generation study begun in the 1980s linked obesity with increased cancer risk. The current study is exploring the effects of a sedentary lifestyle on cancer risk as well as the question of why some people get cancer while others do not.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to that question may take decades to unravel. If you get cancer, Issels Integrative immunotherapy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/TreatmentSummary.aspx#sthash.S8S8bVNI.dpbs\">alternative cancer treatments<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issels.com\/Vaccines.aspx#sthash.VozNDigW.dpbs\">cancer vaccines<\/a> may tip the survival odds in your favor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men have a 1 in 2 chance of developing some sort of cancer at sometime during their lifetime and a 1 in 4 chance of dying from cancer. For women, the risk of developing cancer is 1 in 3 and the risk of dying from cancer is 1 in 5, according to the U.S. National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/why-do-some-people-get-cancer-and-others-dont\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Do Some People Get Cancer and Others Don&#8217;t?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,2],"tags":[254,259],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-cancer-treatment","category-news","tag-cancer-awareness","tag-fighting-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}