{"id":3631,"date":"2023-03-27T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T06:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:23:33","slug":"some-cancer-risk-factors-are-within-your-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/some-cancer-risk-factors-are-within-your-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Cancer Risk Factors Are Within Your Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Cancer is driven by numerous and complex risk factors, making concepts related to calculating its risk a frequent subject of debate. Adding to this debate is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopkinsmedicine.org\/news\/media\/releases\/bad_luck_of_random_mutations_plays_predominant_role_in_cancer_study_shows\">Johns Hopkins study<\/a>\u00a0looking at randomly mutating cells, specifically how they play a predominant role in cancer development. What does this say about your cancer risk?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/\">Issels\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0wants to help you put this new information in perspective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cancer and car accidents: They have a lot in common\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Trip length<\/strong><br \/>\nComparing getting cancer to getting into a car accident, the length of your trip \u2013 your lifespan \u2013 increases your risk. The longer you live, the more the odds increase of your body randomly mutating cells, making this a significant risk factor \u2013 attributable to two-thirds of your total cancer risk in fact.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Road conditions<\/strong><br \/>\nJust as rain or snow can increase your risk of an accident, so too can conditions in your body and in your environment increase your risk of cancer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mechanical issues<\/strong><br \/>\nBad brakes or worn tires can be seen as a metaphor for genetic factors, such as inherited mutations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reading the accident report<\/strong><br \/>\nDespite this research, it can\u2019t be stressed enough no single factor causes cancer. Two-thirds of car accidents are not related solely to trip length, but to a combination of road conditions, mechanical issues, and the like. For each \u201caccident,\u201d the major contributing factor will vary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accident prevention<\/strong><br \/>\nDue to the large combination of risk factors, there are many opportunities for prevention, including addressing radiator issues (smoking), regular maintenance (early diagnostics and detection), and more.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer spinning out of control? Contact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/contact-us.html\">Issels\u00ae<\/a>\u00a0today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer is driven by numerous and complex risk factors, making concepts related to calculating its risk a frequent subject of debate. Adding to this debate is a Johns Hopkins study\u00a0looking at randomly mutating cells, specifically how they play a predominant role in cancer development. What does this say about your cancer risk?\u00a0Issels\u00ae\u00a0wants to help you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/some-cancer-risk-factors-are-within-your-control\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Some Cancer Risk Factors Are Within Your Control<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538,1],"tags":[341,336,224],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immunotherapy-for-cancer","category-uncategorized","tag-cancer-prevention","tag-cancer-risks","tag-cancer-treatment"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3632,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/3632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}