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Your cancer your life – causes of cancer (introduction) YOUR CANCER YOUR LIFE – CAUSES OF CANCER (INTRODUCTION)
There is no single cause for cancer but many different factors which act together. You will remember I said earlier that it is likely that we all develop many cancer cells throughout our lifetime, but that in most cases our immune system destroys them before they have a chance to form a detectable cancer growth. The dangerous cancer cells are the ones which somehow escape the body's immune system. This escape is made possible by weaknesses in the immune system, strengths in the particular cancer cell, occurrence of a large number of cancer cells or a combination of all three.
You might understand this better if we compare it to the growth of weeds. Imagine weeds as the cancer cells and you, the gardener, as the immune system. If you check on your vegetable patch every day and pull out every tiny weed that is peeping through the soil, no troublesome big weeds will ever have the chance to form. However, if you check your garden less often or less thoroughly, or only pull out part of each weed, you'll have a problem. This is what can happen if the immune system is not working at full efficiency. Next, you could be unlucky enough to have very aggressive weeds in your garden which very quickly develop an extensive root system. In spite of careful checking and weeding every day, these particularly strong weeds might still overrun your garden. Thirdly, if a great number of new weeds appear every day, it might just be impossible to detect and pull out every one. There is no one simple reason why your garden should get overrun with weeds. It usually takes a combination of factors.
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