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Can Stress Cause Cancer ?

Can Stress Cause Cancer ?

Stress does not directly cause cancer. No study has proven that psychological stress alone turns a healthy cell cancerous. What chronic stress does is suppress immunity through sustained cortisol elevation, promote DNA-damaging inflammation over years, and push people...
Does Sugar Really Feed Cancer Cells ?

Does Sugar Really Feed Cancer Cells ?

Every cell in the body uses glucose for energy including cancer cells, brain cells, muscle cells, gut lining. Cancer cells burn glucose faster because they divide rapidly, something called the Warburg effect discovered nearly a hundred years ago. Cutting sugar...
Is Cancer Hereditary? When to Get Tested ?

Is Cancer Hereditary? When to Get Tested ?

Only 5-10% of all cancers are truly hereditary, caused by gene mutations passed from parent to child that significantly raise lifetime cancer risk. BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations increase breast cancer risk to 45-72% and ovarian cancer risk to 15-60% compared to 12%...
Can You Get Cancer From a Family Member ?

Can You Get Cancer From a Family Member ?

Cancer is not contagious and cannot spread from one person to another through physical contact, sharing meals, kissing, breathing the same air, or living in the same house. Cancer develops when a person’s own cells acquire DNA mutations that cause uncontrolled...
What Happens If You Refuse Chemotherapy

What Happens If You Refuse Chemotherapy

Refusing chemo when your oncologist recommended it after surgery means microscopic cancer cells already floating in your blood or sitting in lymph nodes stay alive with nothing stopping them from growing back. Adjuvant chemo exists to kill exactly those cells that...
When Is Targeted Therapy Better Than Chemotherapy ?

When Is Targeted Therapy Better Than Chemotherapy ?

Targeted therapy blocks specific proteins or gene mutations that a particular cancer uses to grow while chemotherapy kills all rapidly dividing cells regardless of whether they belong to the tumor or not. Targeted drugs work only when the tumor carries a mutation the...