Medical Anthropology in Cancer Studies

Anthropology has many branches that molecular and medical anthropology are the most important branches of it. Molecular anthropology reports molecular analysis to determine the molecular relationship between ancient and modern populations as well as contemporary species. These analyzes determine the closeness of the relationships between populations by examining the sequence of DNA in different populations. Also, medical anthropology examines human health and disease and examines the health care systems and biological adaptation. This area is the domain of the most advanced areas of applied anthropology and is a subset of social and cultural anthropology. Several studies have been conducted at Stanford University in various fields, including medical culture, the social nature of emerging biotechnology, the impact of the emergence of social networks in health, the consequences of the lives of people with disabilities and inequality. One of these studies, which is very important, is the many social effects that occur in cancer. In the anthropology of cancer, most of the causes, risks, and medical, familial, and empirical causes of this disease are examined, and most studies attempt to cite cancer as a social reality. Accordingly, anthropological studies are not just for anthropologists, but also for other people. Let us consider the cancer that is important for people around the world as a social reality and examine the impact of various social and cultural factors in the field of medical anthropology in creating it. One of these factors can be the effects of factors such as stress, nutrition, living conditions and traditional thoughts on family marriages that lead to genetic disorders that can affect cancer, which can be rooted in community culture.