If a child is adopted, they are more likely to have cancer if their adopted parents have cancer than if their biological parents have cancer. Steingraber is proof of this fact as she is adopted and cancer runs in her family. This indicates that environmental factors widely contribute to cancer in people of all ages. “I’ll let them know that I am adopted and go on to describe one study of cancer among adoptees that found correlations within their adopted families but not within their biological ones. (‘Deaths of adoptive parents from cancer before the age of 50 increased the rate of mortality from cancer fivefold among the adoptees…. Deaths of biological parents from cancer had no detectable effect on the rate of mortality from cancer among the adoptees.’).” (pg. 256-257) This statistic shows how much environmental factors a correlated to the cause of
If a child is adopted, they are more likely to have cancer if their adopted parents have cancer than if their biological parents have cancer. Steingraber is proof of this fact as she is adopted and cancer runs in her family. This indicates that environmental factors widely contribute to cancer in people of all ages. “I’ll let them know that I am adopted and go on to describe one study of cancer among adoptees that found correlations within their adopted families but not within their biological ones. (‘Deaths of adoptive parents from cancer before the age of 50 increased the rate of mortality from cancer fivefold among the adoptees…. Deaths of biological parents from cancer had no detectable effect on the rate of mortality from cancer among the adoptees.’).” (pg. 256-257) This statistic shows how much environmental factors a correlated to the cause of