A 49-year-old member asked:
how much smoking would it take for a smoker to develop cancer?
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Dr. Sewa Leghaanswered
Medical Oncology 50 years experience
A few years can do i: Smoking can cause cancer . It usually takes several years, typically more than 10 years before it becomes a serious hazard. If you smoke more than one pack or more per day, you are asking for trouble due to cancer after a few years of doing it!
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A 20-year-old member asked:
Are people with lupus more likely to develop cancer?
2 doctor answers • 8 doctors weighed in
Dr. Morris Westfriedanswered
Dermatology 46 years experience
No: Lupus is not associated with cancer. It is autoimmune disease.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
Help please! is cancer hereditary?
3 doctor answers • 6 doctors weighed in
Dr. Ritesh Rathoreanswered
Hematology and Oncology 30 years experience
In many cases: Some sub-types of common cancers are hereditary such as brca- breast cancer, lynch syndrome (colon cancer).
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Dr. Ed Friedlander commented
Pathology 44 years experience
This is correct. The vast majority of cancers are sporadic. The vast majority of children of people who have a particular cancer do not get that particular cancer.
Dec 29, 2014
A 43-year-old member asked:
What are different types of cancer you can get?
2 doctor answers • 4 doctors weighed in
Dr. Barry Rosenanswered
General Surgery 34 years experience
Name an Organ...: Cancer may develop in just about any organ in the body, with the most frequent sites including the skin, breast, prostate, lung, colon, uterus, thyroid, head and neck, kidney, bladder, brain, bone, blood cells, lymph nodes, stomach, pancreas, liver, esophagus to name but a few.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
What's advanced stage cancer?
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Dr. Jennifer Giltnaneanswered
Pathology 13 years experience
Large or spread: This depends on the cancer diagnosis, but usually means that the cancer is large or has spread beyond the site of origin.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
With all the new chemotherapies coming out of asco, can we win the war on cancer?
1 doctor answer • 2 doctors weighed in
Dr. Addagada Raoanswered
General Surgery 56 years experience
Hope is in horizon: In lost decade remarkable progress has made in cancer therapy, not only in developing remarkable cancer drugs, its biology, detection at chromosomal level, identifying, its cell markers attacking cancer cell not only by chemicals, but our own defense mechanisms, waiting' to win the war on cancer' but not yet.
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