Why do children suffer from cancer?

Today, more and more families are faced with such a terrible disease as cancer. Unfortunately, malignant tumors occur not only in adults, but also in the youngest children. The causes of cancer in adults are almost always explainable.

Some people abuse cigarettes all their lives and eventually suffer from lung cancer, others acquire a serious chronic disease, for example, viral hepatitis , which provokes the development of cancer of the liver and other organs. The cause of stomach cancer is usually Helicobacter pylori infection, and cervical cancer - the human papilloma virus. However, the development of oncology as a result of such factors will take many years.

Then why is the cancer even sick of the youngest children who just came into being? After all, their body, it would seem, has not yet been exposed to adverse factors. Let's try to understand this difficult question.

Why do children develop cancer?

As you know, every child born to the world receives from his parents a certain gene set. Most of the children Mom or Dad also transmit some genetic abnormalities. For some kids, such violations do not cause significant harm, for others - they cause the start of genetic mutations in the cells of the child's body.

Modern medicine is able to predict the probability of developing a malignant neoplasm at the stage of pregnancy planning with an incredibly high accuracy. Thus, in most cases, the parents themselves are to blame for the appearance of a cancer in a child.

Meanwhile, the "genetic scrap" passed on to the baby by the mother or father usually appears in the first few years of life. One of the main reasons why the cancer appears in older children, is the low ecological level in their place of residence. Day by day the ecological situation in the world only worsens, provoking more and more oncological and other diseases.

In addition, cancer in adolescents often provokes serious stress, psychological trauma and hormonal changes.