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Anonymous
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Sorry, I didn't include the "complex microbiological structures" in there.
Cell formation passes through a series of gates, failsafes, checks (antioncogenes), during the process of mitosis. If the cell being created fails any of these gates, it is destroyed. A carcinogen causes any number of these antioncogenes to fail, which causes mitosis of shitty mutated cells to occur at a rapid clip, which eventually form a tumor. When that tumor metastatizes, spreads to another system, then you have cancer. I took high school biology too.
None of this has to do with the fact that cancer is cause by a mutation, and a mutation is still a chance event. One way to ensure that the mutation will take place is to prolong exposure to the carcinogen. So if exposure to a certain carcinogen a pack a day for 20 years has a 5-10% chance overall of forming a cancerous tumor, then exposure to it for 2-3 hours a week for an unspecified but much shorter number of years results in a much much slimmer chance of developing a tumor.
tl;dr YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET CANCER, GROW UP.
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