Cancer Informative Speech

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“ Oh, your mom has cancer? That means you will get it too”. Is this really true? Are you going to get cancer just because, your mom had it? This leads to one of the biggest questions that scientist have been researching for about hundreds of years. Is cancer a genetic disease or metabolic disease? To know this, one must first know what cancer is? Where does cancer start from? Cancer happens when abnormal cells that should be dead starts dividing uncontrollably throughout your body, and affect all the other cells around it. Cancer starts with something called a tumor. A tumor develops when an abnormal cell doesn't get fixed or go through apoptosis, but instead it grows and divide at an excessive rate and takes over most of the cells around …show more content…

Genetic diseases affect or causes a mutation in the hereditary information in your genes. Also, it affects the number of chromosomes inside your cells. The reason why cancer cannot only be a genetic disease is because, if it's a genetic disease, that means that you inherited it from your parents or there was an error in your DNA or genetic information. If cancer was inherited, then it eventually would have affected everyone in a family. Also if there was an error in the DNA or genetics, than both must have been caused from something else inside the body. For example in National Cancer Institute’s, “What is cancer” the article stated, “ Genetic changes that cause cancer can be inherited from our parents. They can also arise during a person’s lifetime as a result of errors that occur as cells divide or because of damage to DNA caused by certain environmental exposures”. In other words cancer can be inherited from your parents or from a genetic mutation or error in your DNA or genes. This quote shows that cancer is inherited from your parents, and also caused from mutations or errors in the DNA, but these mutations or errors had to come from an outside source because they just arose to someone’s genes and DNA. Also these mutations or genes were not inherited by the parents because …show more content…

By looking deep into the research, and the definition of these two types of diseases whether genetic or metabolic, they both have a deep correlation between each other. If deep thinking was put in, genetic diseases are mostly inherited from parents and if these parents got it from their parents and so on, they would eventually catch up to the first person who got cancer in the family, and that special case’s only cause for cancer would be metabolic disease. This shows that the starting of the metabolic disease which lead to cancer also lead to to the genetic disease in which the cell had an error, and that information was passed on down the line. When there is a genetic disease errors start occurring in the cells inside your body, when this happens, those errors start affecting proteins specifically enzymes inside your body, which leads to metabolic diseases. Since the proteins are not working properly energy cannot be generated properly throughout your body. For example, in the article, “The Metabolic Theory Of Cancer, it stated “ Cancer can be explained by mitochondrial damage followed by a shift to non-oxidative energy metabolism.” This quote shows that when there is metabolic disease the mitochondria gets affected, and the mitochondria is the source of energy for all the cells around the body. If the mitochondria does not generate enough energy the

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