How can things like sunburns and smoking still increase risk for cancer decades after their damage has been done to the body?
In: Biology
Cancer is basically a copy-error in a cell mutating into a big problem. Nearly every cell that has to split to recover from an injury can end up with thay issue (and I only use the word ‘nearly’ to avoid some smartass coming up with an example I didn’t know about). The more the cells divide like that, the older the cells are. The older a cell is, the more likely it is to lead to cancer on mitosis (cellular division).
This isn’t a comprehensive explanation, but it’s as simple as I can keep it, without failing to answer the question.
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