Question: what kind of people get cancer??? is there specific people which can get one???

Matthew Lam answered on 10 Mar 2014:

Everybody can get cancer but some people are at much higher risk than others. For example, women like Angelina Jolie who carry a genetic mutation to a gene called BRCA are at much higher risk of breast and ovarian cancer than women who don’t have the mutation.

The other factors that put you at risk include lifestyle and environmental factors such as smoking, exercise and what you eat.

There does also seem to be a relationship between what your racial background is and the type of breast cancer you are most at risk of getting. For example, African women are more likely to get a type of breast cancer called ‘Triple Negative Breast Cancer’ than any other types of breast cancer. We also know that certain groups of Jewish people are more likely to carry the mutation to BRCA that Angelina Jolie has so are more at risk than other people.

For most cancers, the biggest risk factor is age. The older you get the more likely you are to develop cancer as your cells begin to deteriorate and are more likely to pick up cancer causing mutations.