Re: Cancer viruses and dealing with cancer

Certainly in some instances viruses can lead quickly to cancer, the same as is true of certain other carcinogens and high levels of exposure to radiation. Examples would include viruses which have been engineered to quickly create cancer in lab rodents for cancer studies.

In most instances however, the viruses that are associated with cancers create conditions that lead to cancer years later, as is also true with most toxins and radiation exposure.  All of which create a prolonged inflammation that ultimately results in a cellular defense response that results in cancer when cancer does occur.  Exposure to individual viruses, toxins and radiation do not lead to cancer the majority of the time and that would seem to eliminate them as direct causes of cancer - instead making them causative factors the same as genetics.

Thanks to the increase in toxic load and the weakening of our immunity, cancer by all causes continues to increase.  Thus a preventive lifestyle which avoids and protects against toxins, viruses and radiation is the best way to protect against cancer.