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What is cancer?

Cancer is an illness that consists of anarchical cellular proliferation. When someone suffers from cancer, a part of his or her cells multiply uncontrollably and uninterrupted. In Europe and North America, the most common types of cancer are lung cancer, tightly related to smoking, and breast cancer, for which causes have not been thoroughly investigated yet. In Africa, the most common type of cancer is liver and cervical cancer.

What types of cancer do we know of?

Here are the types of cancer discovered throughout history (enumerated below). I will treat them in depth in individual articles. In order to find out about a type of cancer from below, you only need to click on its name. If the name does not yet link to another page, that means I am currently working on the respective article:

Anal cancer;
Oral cavity cancer (also known as mouth cancer);
Cervical cancer;

Colon cancer;

Colo-rectal cancer;

Endometrial cancer;

Esophageal cancer;

Liver cancer;

Gastric cancer (also known as stomach cancer);

Leukemia;

Breast cancer;

Bone cancer;

Penile cancer;

Skin cancer;

Lung cancer;

Prostate cancer;

Kidney cancer;

Sarcoma;

Testicular cancer;

Thyroid cancer;

Gallbladder cancer;

Bladder cancer.

Causes of cancer

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• WHAT IS CANCER

The word cancer actually concerns to many diseases, not one. In fact, there are more than 100 types of diseases known collectively as cancer. What they all have in common is the overgrowth of cells, tiny units that make up all living things. Cancer (also known as malignancy, pronounced: muh-lig-nun-see) takes place when cells begin to grow and multiply in an uncontrolled way.

Normal body cells cultivate and divide over a period of time until they eventually die. But cancer cells continue to grow and divide and grow and divide. Eventually, they gather to form tumors. Tumors (pronounced: too-murz) are lumps that can interfere with the body’s normal processes. Sometimes cells from a tumor break away and travel to a different tissue or organ. This is called metastasis (pronounced: muh-tas-tuh-sus).

As terrifying as all this sounds, most cancers can be treated and controlled and many people with cancer get better and lead normal lives.

Reason to get affected by Cancer
No one really knows why cancer grows in specific people. Scientists and researchers are working to learn why some people get cancer and others do not. This will help them to learn whether cancer can be prevented.

Doctors do have some ideas about why people may get cancer, though. The main reasons are genetics and certain environmental or behavioral triggers.

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