Cancer: Causes Symptoms Treatments and Risk Factors
Cancer is an uncontrollable division of cells, which damages the immune system, causes tumor, and other fatal problems. Furthermore, Approx. 15.5 million of people live in United States with the history of it.
CANCER
Similarly, In some cases cancer causes body cells to develop at higher rate but in some rare cases the growth or division of cells is at lower pace. Tumors have visible growth while other type ‘leukemia’ did not. Furthermore, Our body cells have a specific lifespan, death of cells are natural process which is called ‘apoptosis’. In this process cell gets the message to die which further can be replaced with new cell. But the cancerous cells in patient’s body lack this procedure to stop dividing and die. Moreover, This results in forming tumors which resists the body to function normal.
CAUSES:
In many causes of cancer some can be prevented. Smoking is one of the major causes as well of it, approx. 480,000 people dies in U.S. due to smoking. In addition factors of it include. for example:
- No physical activity
- More alcohol consumption
- Obesity
- Malnutrition
Other than these causes is not preventable.
TREATMENTS:
New researches have made important developments in the treatments and medicines of it. Similarly, Treatments are prescribe by the doctors by seeing the overall health of the patient, stage of cancer and at which stage cancer is diagnose and type of the it.
Some of the examples of its treatments are below. For example:
- Chemotherapy
- Hormone therapy
- Immunotherapy
- Precision or prescribed medicines
- Radiation therapy
- Stem cell transplant
- Surgery in some cases
- Targeted therapy
TYPES:
In U.S. most common type is breast. Moreover, Approx. 40k people in U.S. are diagnosing with it.
Other types are as follows, for example:
- Liver
- Endometrial
- Thyroid
- Colon and rectal
- Kidney
- Melanoma
- Pancreatic
- Bladder
- Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Furthermore, Other types are in rare cases.
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