Environmental factors that cause cancer

Exposure to a wide variety of natural and man-made substances in the environment accounts for at least two-thirds of all cancer cases in the United States. These environmental factors include lifestyle choices like: cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, poor diet, lack of exercise, excessive sunlight exposure, and sexual behavior that increases exposure to certain viruses.

Other factors include exposure to certain drugs, hormones, radiation, viruses, bacteria, and environmental chemicals that may be present in the air, water, food, and workplace. The cancer risks associated with many environmental chemicals have been identified through studies of occupational groups that have higher exposures to these chemicals than the general population.

The importance of the environment can be seen in the differences in cancer rates throughout the world and the change in cancer rates when groups of people move from one country to another. For example, when Asians, who have low rates of prostate and breast cancer and high rates of stomach cancer in their native countries, immigrate to the United States, their prostate and breast cancer rates rise over time until they are nearly equal to or greater than the higher levels of these cancers in the United States. Likewise, their rates of stomach cancer fall, becoming nearly equal to the lower U.S. rates. Lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, and being overweight are thought to play a major role in the trends for breast and prostate cancers, and infection with the Helicobacter pylori bacterium is an important risk factor for stomach cancer. Recently, the rapid rise in the rates of colorectal cancer in Japan and China suggests an environmental cause such as lifestyle factors.

Different environmental exposures are linked to specific kinds of cancer. For example, exposure to asbestos is linked primarily to lung cancer, whereas exposure to benzidine, a chemical found in certain dyes, is associated with bladder cancer. In contrast, smoking is linked to cancers of the lung, bladder, mouth, colon, kidney, throat, voice box, esophagus, lip, stomach, cervix, liver, and pancreas.

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