Originally Posted by HiYoSilver
Yeah, in general but with Multiple Myeloma they don't know what causes it and how to prevent it. We've been "fighting" cancers for decades and still don't know what causes it. I suspect best prevention is more natural food sources with less additives, pesticides, bioengineering, hormone treatments, etc.
Actually, this is not quite true. Multiple myeloma, while we don't know exactly what causes an abnormal monoclonal plasma cell population to proliferate, is associated with mutations of certain genes as well as exposure to certain toxic chemicals. But diseases such as AML (acute myelogenous leukemia) are directly associated with conditions such as myelofibrosis - in fact, if you have myelofibrosis (which is associated with chemical exposures), you have to be monitored for progression to AML. CML (chronic myelogenous leukemia) is directly associated with the translocation of the Philadelphia chromosome (aka, BCR-ABL, resulting from t(9:22)). In fact, cytogenetic studies performed on the bone marrow biopsy that are positive for the translocation is diagnostic of CML.
There is very little scientific data available supporting a direct association between food sources and cancer. Pesticides can cause organophosphate poisoning as well as any number of conditions, but a direct link to blood dyscrasias has not been established. Hormone treatments cause precociuos puberty and clear cell carcinoma in the female offspring of the affected female, but again, very little evidence of blood dyscrasias. However, it never hurts to err on the side of caution. Just because no causal evidence has been proven does not been that it doesn't exist.