Frequent screening/check-ups and avoidance of risk factors (e.g., smoking) are often advised in cases involving inherited genes which predispose a person to cancer. Do you think that this advice will make a difference in morbidity or mortality related to this particular disorder?

Frequent screening/check-ups and prevention of risk factors (eg, smoking) are often advised in cases involving inherited genes that predispose a person to cancer. This advice will make a difference in morbidity or mortality related to that particular disorder and in other cases too.

Smoking

Smoking is a disease (nicotine dependence) that is related to approximately 50 diseases, including several types of cancer.

lung
larynx
pharynx
esophagus
stomach
pancreas
liver
kidney
bladder
cervix
leukemia

respiratory system diseases

pulmonary emphysema
chronic bronchitis
asthma
respiratory infections

and cardiovascular diseases

angina
acute myocardial infarction,
arterial hypertension
aneurysms
stroke
thrombosis.

It is estimated that, in the Us, each year, about 157 thousand people die prematurely due to diseases caused by smoking. Smokers get sick twice as often as non-smokers. They have less physical resistance, less breath and worse performance in sports and life than non-smokers. In addition, they age faster and are left with yellow teeth, dull hair, wrinkled skin and impregnated with the odor of smoke.

With this information, we can say that smoking will always be a habit to be stopped, because even in people who have no predisposition, smoking is harmful.

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