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์ผ๋Ÿฌ์ŠคํŠธ=์ตœ์ •์ง„

โ€˜cancer(์•”)โ€™๋ผ๋Š” ๋ช…์นญ์€ โ€˜์˜ํ•™์˜ ์•„๋ฒ„์ง€(Father of Medicine)โ€™๋กœ ๋ถˆ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋Œ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์Šค ์˜ํ•™์ž ํžˆํฌํฌ๋ผํ…Œ์Šค๊ฐ€ โ€˜๊ฒŒ(crab)โ€™๋ฅผ ๋œปํ•˜๋Š” โ€˜karkinomaโ€™๋กœ ๋ช…๋ช…ํ•œ ๋ฐ์„œ ์œ ๋ž˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค. ์ข…์–‘ ์ „์ด ๋ชจ์Šต(appearance of the tumor metastasizing)์ด ๊ฒŒ์˜ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฎ์•˜๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์œ ์˜€๋‹ค.

์•”๋„ ์—์ด์ฆˆ(AIDS)์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฐจ์ธฐ ์ •๋ณต๋ผ ๊ฐ€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ข…๋ฅ˜๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์•„์ง์€ ์น˜๋ช…์ ์ธ(be fatal) ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์–ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ตฌ๊ตฌํ•œ ์–ต์ธก๊ณผ ์˜คํ•ด(speculations and misunderstandings)๊ฐ€ ํšกํ–‰ํ•œ๋‹ค(run rampant).

์„ธ๊ณ„ ์ตœ๋Œ€ ์•” ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ธฐ๊ด€์ธ ์˜๊ตญ Cancer Research๊ฐ€ ๋’ค์ง‘์€ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ ์—†๋Š” ๋ฏฟ์Œ(myth debunked) ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ถˆ์— ํƒ„ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋‚˜ ์‹ํ’ˆ์ด๋‹ค. ๋†’์€ ์˜จ๋„์—์„œ ์žฅ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์š”๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„ํฌ๋ฆด์•„๋ฏธ๋“œ๋ผ๋Š” ํ™”ํ•™๋ฌผ์งˆ์ด ์ƒ์„ฑ๋˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ด ๋ฌผ์งˆ์„ ์•”๊ณผ ์—ฐ๊ณ„์‹œ์ผœ ์™”๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ ์ •๋„ ์–‘์€ ์•”์„ ์œ ๋ฐœํ•  ์—ผ๋ ค๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์ผ€์ž„๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์˜ ํ•œ ์ €๋ช…ํ•œ ํ†ต๊ณ„ํ•™์ž(renowned statistician)๋Š” โ€œ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ๊ตฌ์›Œ์ง„ ํ† ์ŠคํŠธ์˜ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ, ๋งค์ผ 320๊ฐœ์”ฉ ๋จน์–ด์•ผ ์•”์— ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์ด ์ƒ๊ธด๋‹คโ€๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

ํœด๋Œ€ํฐ์˜ ์ „์ž๊ธฐ ๋ฐฉ์‚ฌ์„ (electromagnetic radiation)๋„ ์—ผ๋ คํ•  ํ•„์š” ์—†๋‹ค. ์ฃผ๋จธ๋‹ˆ์— ๋„ฃ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š” ๋“ฑ ๋ชธ์— ์•„๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ํ•ด๋„ ์•” ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๋†’์ด์ง€(raise the risk of cancer) ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

์ด๋™ํ†ต์‹ (mobile communications)์€ ์ „ํŒŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์•„ ์ „๊ธฐ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋กœ ๋ณ€ํ™˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ(convert radio waves into electrical signals) ์ž‘๋™ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ, ๊ทธ ์ „์ž๊ธฐํŒŒ๋Š” ์—‘์Šค๋ ˆ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฐ๋งˆ์„ ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋น„์ „์ด์„ฑ ๋ฐฉ์‚ฌ์„ ์ธ ๋ฐ๋‹ค, ์ธ์ฒด DNA์— ์˜ํ–ฅ์„ ์ค„ ๋งŒํ•œ ์—๋„ˆ์ง€๋„ ๊ฐ–๊ณ  ์žˆ์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.

์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์š” ์š”์ธ(major factor)์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์„ค๋„ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐ•์•ฝํ•˜๋‹ค(lack strong evidence). ์ŠคํŠธ๋ ˆ์Šค ํ˜ธ๋ฅด๋ชฌ์ธ ์ฝ”ํ‹ฐ์†”์— ์žฅ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋˜๋ฉด ์•”์ด ์ƒ๊ธธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ช‡๋ช‡ ์ด๋ก ์€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ด€๋ จ์„ฑ์„ ์ž…์ฆํ•˜๋Š” ์ง€์†์ ์ธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ(consistent evidence)๋ฅผ ์ œ์‹œํ•œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค.

์‹์Œ๋ฃŒ์— ๊ฐ€๋ฏธ๋˜๋Š” ์ธ๊ณต ๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋ฃŒ(artificial sweetener)์— ๋ฐœ์•”์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š”(be carcinogenic) ์ฃผ์žฅ ์—ญ์‹œ ๋ถˆํ•„์š”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ€์ค‘์  ๊ณตํฌ์‹ฌ์„ ์ž์•„๋‚ธ(instill public fear) ๊ณผ์žฅ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

์œ ๋Ÿฝ์‹ํ’ˆ์•ˆ์ „์ฒญ์ด ์ธ๊ณต๊ฐ๋ฏธ๋ฃŒ ๊ฐ€๋ฏธ ์Œ๋ฃŒ์ˆ˜์˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ํ—ˆ์šฉ ์„ญ์ทจ๋Ÿ‰(acceptable daily intake)์„ 14์บ”์œผ๋กœ ์ •ํ•ด ๋†“์€ ๊ฒŒ ๋‹จ์ ์ธ ๋ฐฉ์ฆ์ด๋‹ค.

ํ”Œ๋ผ์Šคํ‹ฑ ๋ฌผ๋ณ‘์ด๋‚˜ ์Œ์‹ ํฌ์žฅ์žฌ๊ฐ€ ๋น„์ŠคํŽ˜๋†€A๋ผ๋Š” ์•” ์œ ๋ฐœ ํ™”ํ•™๋ฌผ์งˆ์„ ํ•จ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š”(contain cancer-causing chemical) ์„ค๋„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ์šฐ๋ คํ•  ํ•„์š” ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.

์‹คํ—˜์‹ค ์šฉ๊ธฐ์— ๋‹ด๊ธด ์ธ๊ฐ„ ์„ธํฌ์— ๋น„์ŠคํŽ˜๋†€์„ ๊ณ„์† ์ฃผ์ž…ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๋ฉด ์‹ค์ƒํ™œ์—์„œ(in real life) ๊ทธ๋งŒํผ ๋…ธ์ถœ๋  ์—ผ๋ ค๋Š” ์—†๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

๊ฐ€์กฑ ์ค‘ ์•” ํ™˜์ž๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์‹๊ตฌ๋„ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฑด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ชจ๋“  ์•”์˜ 10% ์ •๋„๋งŒ ์œ ์ „์„ฑ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ (be hereditary) ํ•œ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ์™€๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ๋ณ‘๋ ฅ(family medical history)์— ๋‹จ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ๋„ ์ „๋ก€๊ฐ€ ์—†์—ˆ๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ฑธ๋ฆด ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์•”์˜ 90~95%๋Š” ์œ ์ „ ๋Œ์—ฐ๋ณ€์ด(genetic mutation)์— ์˜ํ•ด ์ƒ๊ฒจ๋‚˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์ด๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ณ€์ด๋Š” ๋…ธํ™”(aging), ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์š”์ธ(environmental factor), ์‹์ด์š”๋ฒ•๊ณผ ์‹ ์ฒดํ™œ๋™ ๋“ฑ ๊ฑด๊ฐ• ์Šต๊ด€์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•œ๋‹ค.

[์˜๋ฌธ ์ฐธ๊ณ ์ž๋ฃŒ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ]

โ˜ž https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/cancer-myths

โ˜ž https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wellness-uk/article-13099671/Burnt-sweeteners-mobile-cancer-myths.html

โ˜ž https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/medical-myths-all-about-cancer#1.-Cancer-is-a-death-sentence

โ˜ž https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/myths

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