Why does bladder cancer affect more older people than younger people?
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at
2:40 am
jonathon asked:
Is there a reason?
Is there a reason?
Filed under: Bladder Cancer
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Risk factors for bladder cancer include cigarette smoking, long-term exposure to certain chemicals, repeated or chronic bladder infections and certain forms of cancer treatment, as well as increasing age.
Keep in mind that increasing age is likely to icrease the chance of all the other risk factors.
The majority of cancers (other than those which are specifically childhood cancers) increase likelyhood with age. It is believed that the continual replication of cels as we live and grow allows more oportunity for a genetic flaw to occur as we age. This can lead to cancer.
There is no real clear reason why one person will get cancer while someone else will not . . increasing age appears to be a risk factor in some cases. There are over 200 different types of cancer and many of them seem to be ‘age specific’ . . so, in general, children tend to get cancers associated with the primitive cells found in childhood . . while older adults get organ related cancers such as breast, lung, colon . . and bladder .. just the process of aging . . our cells getting older places you at risk to develop certain types of cancer at certain ages.
You can look up the different types of cancers associated with the following age groups:
Children
Cancer in teens
Cancer in young adults
Cancer in older adults