Claim That Cancer Is Purely Man-Made Disease Tells Only Half the Story
Research - A friend sent me a recent controversial study by the University of Manchester in Britain that stated: “Cancer is a man-made disease.” This assertion was based on the researchers finding no evidence of cancer in Egyptian remains stretching back thousands of years, which led them to conclude that cancer is something that happened with the dawn of the Industrial Age, proclaiming “there is nothing in the natural environment that can cause cancer, so it has to be a man-made disease, down to pollution and changes to our diet and life-style.” As with all published studies, we shouldn’t look at this one with blinders on; especially when it comes to cancer. It’s likely that both genetics and a wide range of other factors contribute in different ways to different cancers. Cancer is an uncontrolled system of cell division inside the human body. The word cancer represents not just one disease, but many diseases. There are, in fact, more than 100 different types of cancer. In the field of cancer research, scientists define the environment as everything outside the body that enters and interacts with it. These interactions, or environmental exposures, include a long list of different types of exposures, like sunshine, radiation, hormones, viruses, bacteria, ...
