Question

Cancer is fundamentally characterized as:

पर्याय

• A deficiency of essential nutrients

• A disease caused solely by lifestyle factors

• A genomic disease that arises from damage to DNA

• An infection transmitted from one person to another

Answer 1

Cancer is fundamentally a genomic disease that arises from damage to DNA. This damage may be caused by carcinogens generating free radicals or through direct alterations to the DNA sequence, ultimately leading to the transformation of normal cells into cancerous cells through accumulated genetic mutations.