31 January 2021: Curing Cancer – Part 7 – Random chronic stress / bad luck as a major cause of cancer

This is my seventh essay about curing cancer based on the principles of complexity theory (follow my blog at https://natpernickshealthblog.wordpress.com). This essay discusses random chronic stress / bad luck, a major cause of pancreatic cancer (Pernick 2021) and lung cancer in nonsmokers (Pernick 2018).

Key concepts discussed are: (1) random chronic stress / bad luck is a major cause of cancer at some sites; (2) cancer often develops through rare bursts of activity in cells and their networks, not in a gradual, step-wide manner; (3) cancers due to random chronic stress may have better survival and other clinical differences compared to cancers due to traditional risk factors; and (4) due to the presence of random chronic stress, cancer will always be with us, although we can prevent some cases, we can detect it earlier and we can treat it more effectively.

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