New Delhi: For many years, people considered cancer to be a genetic defect. However, the latest studies on the science behind our genes, known as epigenetics, show that our destiny may be more flexible than we originally thought. Epigenetics, a field that studies how genes change without altering the sequence of their code, teaches us that external factors can turn a genetic switch—such as one linked to breast cancer—on and off. Environmental influences, like diet, pollution, and stress, can activate or deactivate specific genes involved in cancer. Therefore,........

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