does anyone know the truth about the disease cancer?

October 18, 2009 | By admin In New Diseases |
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nana

i just wondered how does cancer (attack)(if that’s the word to describe)a person?is it a genetic disease?can human science really cure cancer?

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5 Comments so far

  1. skunkworks513 on October 20th, 2009

    cancer is an uncontrollable divison of cells. You can get it from anything my cousin was thought to have gotten it from his clothes. And no human science cannot cure cancer only lessen the count of cancerous cells and tumors.

  2. lo_mcg on October 23rd, 2009

    Cancer happens when normal cells change so that they grow in an uncontrolled way. This uncontrolled growth causes a tumour to form, Nobody knows what causes this to happen.

    Cancer can be genetically inherited, but it’s rare. Fewer than 10% of all cancer cases are hereditary, and there’s no cancer that is especially likely to be hereditary.

    As for a cure – there’s no guaranteed cure for any cancer, but that doesn’t mean no cancers are cured.

    The trouble with finding a ‘cure for cancer’ is that cancer is over 200 different diseases, not just one. The difficulty is that different cancers are caused by different things, so no one strategy can prevent them, and different cancers respond to different treatments so no one treatment can cure them all. There isn’t and never will be a single ‘cure’ discovered

    Quite a few cancers can be cured these days though. For example, 7 out of 10 children are cured of cancer. Testicular cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, and many cases of leukaemia can all be cured in adults with chemotherapy, most skin cancers are cured with surgery, and many cases of thyroid cancer and cancer of the larynx are cured with radiotherapy.

    Many other types of cancer are also cured if they are found early enough. There is still a long way to go, especially with some of the commonest types of cancer such as lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancer.

    There is much research going on in all types of cancer to try and find cures and treatments. Biological therapies such as cancer vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and gene therapies are all active areas of research. There is also research into how cancers grow their own blood supplies. Researchers are beginning to test ‘anti-angiogenic’ drugs that may be able to stop that happening and so stop cancers from growing. Of course you still have to find them early enough for this to be a cure. But there is hope that this treatment may also stop cancer secondaries from developing.

    There’ll never be a Eureka! moment when a single substance is dicovered that will reverse all cancers, though ways to reverse some, and to slow down others, will be discovered

  3. Kisshomaru on October 26th, 2009

    Cancer appears to be a genetically triggered anomaly that may also respond to certain environmental factors where the cell does not reproduce properly or correctly causing a mutation of the same.

    These cells deprive the normal cells of the nutrients they need as well stopping blood flow to said cells.

    Further, the mutated cells reproduce faster than the normal cells which creates a tumor.

    The position of a tumor can decrease blood circulation which may cause other surrounding cells to die.

    The mutated cells seldom function properly, disrupting the function of any organ they may have developed in. Obviously, the correct functioning of any and every organ can be critical for the survival of the entire organism, i.e., the human body.

    Science has been able to identify markers that point to the development of cancer which will allow for the delay of the onset of the same either permanently or temporarily.

    Current treatment for cancer involves removing the cancerous tissue and some of the surrounding tissue,, chemotherapy and radiation therapy all aimed at killing the cancerous cells.

    As of yet, there is no known manner of reversing the progression of cancer.

    New treatments are aimed at cutting off the blood supply and thereby the nutrients to the cancer cells effectively killing them.

  4. Julia B on October 26th, 2009

    Cancer has been shown to have familial ties, but lifestyle can also play a major role. The body has to be ‘out of balance’ for cancer to thrive, and good lifestyle choices such as meditation, a whole foods organic diet, and regular exercise can help to prevent cancer.

  5. Ed Atun on October 29th, 2009

    A group of cells would normally divide once and stop. With cancer, those cells keep dividing and don’t stop. Then they try to attract a blood supply to keep growing. No one knows why. The truth is that we are animals and we must die someday. This is one of the 7 main ways we die..

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