Are there Risk Factors For Sarcoma?
All cancers result primarily from genetic disruptions associated with isolated or multiple DNA mutations, including:
- Bacterial or viral infections (e.g., Kaposi’s sarcoma) or autoimmune deficiencies
- Dietary and lifestyle causes such as excess intake of sugar, fat, and alcohol; obesity; and lack of daily exercise
- Environmental carcinogens, including smoking (causes lung and other cancers), excessive exposure to the sun (causes melanoma), exposure to asbestos (causes lung cancer), and exposure to chemicals such as arsenic, DDT, and pesticides
- Cancer-causing familial genetic mutations that can be passed along from parents to their children - Some of the conditions that put families at risk for sarcomas include Li- Fraumeni syndrome (soft tissue sarcoma/osteosarcoma), neurofibromatosis type 1 (peripheral nerve tumors that become sarcomas), multiple hereditary exostoses (benign tumors that slowly evolve into chondrosarcoma) and retinoblastoma of the eye (associated with osteosarcoma)
- The normal process of aging significantly increases our risk of developing most cancers, especially over the age of 60
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