What Causes Cancer? Can Cancer Be Prevented?

One major reason for the deadly disease cancer to strike us is the pile of toxins and toxic damage in our body. This source of these toxins can be external as well as internal. We are subjected to both internal and external poisoning. Toxins - read free radicals are generated from natural body metabolism. The external factors that add to the toxins are many right from the food we intake to air we breath to water we drink apart from various infections. Our bodies are exposed to a wide variety of external carcinogenic pollutants daily. Examples are the benzoprene found in cigarette smoke, the lead and gasoline vapors of industrial and automotive emissions, the pesticides, herbicides, and hormones that infiltrate our food chain.