Risk Factors For Childhood Cancers

Risk Factors For Childhood Cancers:  Role Of Lifestyle Not Considered As Significant In Children As Adult Cancers

A risk factor is anything that affects the chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Different cancers have different risk factors.

In adults, lifestyle-related risk factors, such as  being overweight, eating an unhealthy diet, not getting enough exercise, and habits like smoking and drinking alcohol play a major role in many types of cancer. But lifestyle factors usually take many years to influence cancer risk, and they are not thought to play much of a role in childhood cancers.

Read more, click the link below.

https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-in-children/risk-factors-and-causes.html