• Question: can people get cancer at any time.

    Asked by to Matt, Leah, Andrea, Ana, Amar on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
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      Matthew Lam answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Yes, cancer affects people of all ages but the majority of cases are in people over 60 years old.

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      Amar Joshi answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Yes. People can get cancer at any time of day! lol

      But seriously, cancer usually occurs in older people as the bodies anti-cancer systems stop working as well as they did. This is why cancer affect large parts of the western developed world. As life expectancy increases in the developing world, cancer rates will increase there too.

      Cancer is caused by a mutation in you DNA. This can happen at any time so anyone can get cancer at any age.

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      Andrea Hanvey answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Yes cancer can develop at any age, less than 1 % of cancers occur in children aged 0-14 and less than 1% occur in young adults from 14-24. Cancer is most commonly diagnosed in those over the age of 60, with one third of cases being diagnosed in people over the age of 75.

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      Anastasia Wass answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Yup the others are all right cancer can occur at any time but usually when your older!

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