Cancer Epidemiology Cancer is not a single disease; it is a myriad or collection of diseases with many different manifestations as there are many different types of tissues and cell types Cancer is a disease of abnormal gene expression. Cells are constantly evolving and have the natural selection pressures to change Common biological properties of tumor cells: 1) Deregulated clonal cell growth- all cells in a tumor originated from one single cell that acquired mutations that made it deregulated
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Cervical cancer is the second common cancer in women. Cervical cancer is a sexually transmitted disease caused by human papillovirus ‚ or also known as HPV. Some people may not experience any cervical cancer symptoms. There are several risk factors that may increase the risk such as having multiple partners. Having sex at an early age may also increase the risk of HPV. Sexual transmitted diseases such as Chlamydia‚ gonorrhea‚ and cigarette smoking can also cause cervical cancer. There are treatments
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Lung Cancer Lung Cancer‚ something so prevalent in today’s society affects so many‚ yet each day people continue to increase their chances of obtaining this disease by the simple act of lighting up a cigarette. Something that seems so insignificant but with each puff of that Marlborough or Parliament‚ increases the growth of cell tissue In the Lungs. The disease itself is caused by tobacco smoke in 80-90 percent of smokers and the remaining percentage is due to pollution‚ second hand smoke‚
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Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the United States. There are two different types of skin cancers: Melanomas and non-melanomas. To understand both of these terms a little better you need to be aware that your skin is divided up into 3 layers: the epidermis‚ dermis‚ and subcutis. The top layer‚ the epidermis‚ is very thin and serves to protect the deeper layers of the skin. The epidermis is also composed of basal cells‚ which in turn divide to form squamous cells and melanocytes. Melanoma
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Cancer… I’m screaming‚ crying and I feel like I’m dying. That’s because I am. I was diagnosed 6 months ago‚ and the doctors have been telling me to ’Fight’ and ’Just hold on’ ever since. Every time I wake up I’m in a hospital bed staring at the ceiling and wondering how I’m still alive‚ but as I get told constantly I am. When I was first rushed to the hospital it was because my ribs felt like they were caving in on me and made it hard to breathe‚ I was taking long but wheezing breaths. Eating had
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of the gallbladder as well as other factors that may all lead to pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic carcinoma is cancer of the pancreas. It is consider a malignant neoplasm disease of abnormal mass of tissue. Normally‚ the cells in the body follws an orderly growth‚ division‚ and eventually dies off but when the process for the pancreas is interrupted cancer begins to form at site. The most common type of pancreatic cancer is the adenocarcinoma arising from the exocrine gland as glandular cells in
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Kidney Cancer KIdney Cancer is when cells in the body grow out of control. These cells can form a tumor or damaged tissue. If cancer cells grow in the kidney‚ it is called kidney cancer. The most common kidney cancer in adults is renal cell carcinoma. It forms in the lining of very small tubes in the kidney. Cancers found in the center of the kidney are known as transitional cell carcinoma. Wilms tumor is a kidney cancer that very young children can get. On average‚ people are diagnosed with kidney
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Pancreas Cancer Having pancreas cancer can make your life difficult‚ because of the excruciating pain it can deliver. According to American Cancer Society (2012)‚ in early stages the disease may not have any symptoms. Often time when you have symptoms‚ doctors can diagnose you with minor problems such as regular stomach or abdominal pain. Unfortunate not all people or doctors will detect the cancer in its early stage and the cancer can be deadly. From the researches that have been conducted over
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Have you ever wondered how cancers formed? Cancer is caused in many ways‚ some are worse than others. There are also a lot of different ways to cure cancer. Thyroid cancer is cancer that can be caused by many things. Thyroid cancer kills people all the time. Any Type of cancer is bad and can kill you. Cancer is very serious. There are many types of cancer‚ but Chernobyl caused a special kind. Chernobyl caused many types of cancer. That special kind is thyroid cancer‚ it’s located on the bottom
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Where Cancer comes from Cancer of the lung‚ like all cancers‚ results from an abnormality in the body ’s basic unit of life‚ the cell. Tumors can also cause cancer. Tumors usually can be removed and do not spread to other parts of the body. Malignant tumors‚ on the other hand‚ grow aggressively and invade other tissues of the body‚ allowing entry of tumor cells into the bloodstream or lymphatic system and then to other sites in the body. This process of spread is termed metastasis; the areas of
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