A question about cancer..!!?
is it just the locale?
Answer:
Essentially all cancer types are cells that are growing uncontrollably or incorrectly. The differences are where the cells are located and what caused them to grow uncontrollably or damaged and at what stage in the cells development.
The treatments are based on the where and why when known.
The difference is that they all have different risk/aggregating factors and they all have different treatments. I can get skin cancer from being in the sun and I can get lung cancer from inhaling too many fumes (esp. gas). They also have different rates of mortality because I can die faster from brain cancer than from testicular cancer
I saw a report on the Discovery Health Channel about six to seven years ago that a cure for Cancer had been found back in the first half of the last century. A Cancer patient caught a fever; when the fever was gone so was the Cancer. The Doctor investigated this and gave all of his Cancer patients fevers and they all cured, 100%. And he kept curing them until he retired. Drug companies don't want anyone to do this they would lose most of their money. There was also a chart showing how with each new vaccine came out, the amount of people getting Cancer increased. Cancer was rare in 1950.
I had Breast cancer 6 years ago and my version was quite rare - there are loads of types of Breast cancer. In May I was told I had metastasized and now have the equivalent of the same cancer but it's in my brain, and unfortunately there is nothing more they can do for me, my prognosis was 8 - 10 weeks, and I'm now half way through that.
Each type of cancer acts the same though and if it is malignant will kill you unless it is caught early enough and treated. There are also certain benign cancers which have to be removed as they kill vital areas in your organs. Please anyone reading this if you have ANY lump or suspicious growth or funny looking mole, get it checked out NOW!
They are all very different. Each is affecting a different cell line, each has different triggers and co-factors. The progress and spread of each is different as is the management and prognosis.
My niece was diagnosed with lung cancer 13 years ago aged 18, thankfully she is fine now. She read a lot of information and there were over 200 different types of cancer, so that was 13 years ago so maybe they have found more, I was shocked.
Each cancer has its own DNA. That is about as simple as I can make it.
Cancer happens when cells start reproducing abnormally and don't die when they are supposed to. There are many many different types of cancer and they can be differentiated by microscopic exam. Each cancer is unique in it's cause, symptoms and treatment. Whoever wrote about the fever thing is full of crap. Fevers do not cure cancer. The cure for cancer is not known at this time. Many cancer patients suffer from severe fevers throughout their disease. Cancer does seem more common now, but that is because people live longer and don't die from the other things that used to kill us.
they all have differnent risks... colon cancer is the most deadly... but more than half begin with a tumor
There is too much information about all the different types of cancers to mention here. Check this website out it will explain everything you need to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cancer...
Cancer is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as:
1. “A disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in part of the body.
2. “A malignant growth or tumour resulting from such a division of cells.
3. “Something evil or destructive that is hard to contain or eradicate.
“ORIGIN Latin, ‘crab or creeping ulcer’, said to have been applied to tumours because the swollen veins around them resembled the limbs of a crab.”
The different types relate to the different types of tissue in which it arises. The actual process of the cancer is the same - that is, an uncontrolled division of cells, leading to uncontrolled growth. This ultimately leads to damage to the normal tissue cells.
Of course, being in different areas of the body, there are differences in how it grows, how it spreads, and the type of damage it causes. There are also different factors that trigger or stimulate the development of cancer, but is usually related to long-term inflammation in the area.
For example, smoke causes low grade chronic inflammation in the mouth, throat and lungs, and this predisposes to lung cancer. Sunlight can cause the same in the skin, and predisposes to skin cancer. An interesting fact is that exposure to radiation in mammography leads to low-grade inflammation and predisposes to breast cancer!
The difference is principally the cells they arise in, but the principles behind cancer is the same. For instance a cell that multiplies but doesn't die, creates a lump known as a tumour. This can be benign, what makes it malignant is its ability to spread to other areas.
If cancer has spread, for example from the lung to brain, then the biopsy from the brain cancer will show cells that resemble lung tissue (in a basic sense). Obvioulsy different tumours have different outlooks, but this is as much dependant on locality to other structures as differentiation of the cancer.
In medicine, carcinoma is any cancer that arises from epithelial cells. It is malignant by definition: carcinomas invade surrounding tissues and organs, and may spread to lymph nodes and distal sites (metastasis).
A sarcoma is a cancer of the connective or supportive tissue (bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels) and soft tissue.
Please see the web pages for more details on Cancer, Breast cancer, Skin cancer, Lung cancer and Colon cancer.
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