Cancer and White Blood Cells
Essay Assignment:
Cancer
1. Introduction
In this essay, I will talk about how cancer creates in our bodies and the different ways that it can be treated. We will learn that scientists find some ways to prevented after continue researches throughout the years. Then in the end, we will see how cancer affects population and at the same time our way of life.
2. Cancer facts and Classes
Nobody knows when cancer originated, but thanks to scientists and new researchers every year we find new things about cancer, and the more we know about it, the more that we are going to understand it.
Cancer is the accelerated growth of abnormal cells. In normal cells the grow rate is controlled and new cells are used when the old cells die by means of apoptosis or cell suicide. When the cells do not die and continue to growth, it becomes cancer. This can be cause by mutation in the genes, radiation, etc.
Cancer can be benign or malign. Benign cancer occurs when the growing of the cells stays in one location and malign cancer occurs when the cells destroyed the layer that covers them, then they enter the blood stream and can spread in other parts of the body, this is called metastic.
Normal cell division
Cancer cell division
Cancer can appear in any part of the body and affects infants, children and adults, even the fetus. Because of this, there are different classes; we will show the most common kind of cancers.
a) Prostate cancer: occurs in adult males, in a glandule (prostate) situated in the male reproductive organ.
b) Breast cancer: occurs in adult females, in the breast tissue.
c) Lung cancer: occurs in the lungs of adults.
d) Colon cancer; occurs in the colon, rectum and appendix of adults.
e) Bladder cancer
f) Ovarian cancer
g) Leukemia; is a cancer that occurs in the blood, when the abnormal growth of white
Cancer
1. Introduction
In this essay, I will talk about how cancer creates in our bodies and the different ways that it can be treated. We will learn that scientists find some ways to prevented after continue researches throughout the years. Then in the end, we will see how cancer affects population and at the same time our way of life.
2. Cancer facts and Classes
Nobody knows when cancer originated, but thanks to scientists and new researchers every year we find new things about cancer, and the more we know about it, the more that we are going to understand it.
Cancer is the accelerated growth of abnormal cells. In normal cells the grow rate is controlled and new cells are used when the old cells die by means of apoptosis or cell suicide. When the cells do not die and continue to growth, it becomes cancer. This can be cause by mutation in the genes, radiation, etc.
Cancer can be benign or malign. Benign cancer occurs when the growing of the cells stays in one location and malign cancer occurs when the cells destroyed the layer that covers them, then they enter the blood stream and can spread in other parts of the body, this is called metastic.
Normal cell division
Cancer cell division
Cancer can appear in any part of the body and affects infants, children and adults, even the fetus. Because of this, there are different classes; we will show the most common kind of cancers.
a) Prostate cancer: occurs in adult males, in a glandule (prostate) situated in the male reproductive organ.
b) Breast cancer: occurs in adult females, in the breast tissue.
c) Lung cancer: occurs in the lungs of adults.
d) Colon cancer; occurs in the colon, rectum and appendix of adults.
e) Bladder cancer
f) Ovarian cancer
g) Leukemia; is a cancer that occurs in the blood, when the abnormal growth of white
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