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Cancer Has Spread First Three Years
1,501 wordsCancer is a group of many different diseases that have some important things in common. They all affect cells, the bodys basic unit of life. To understand different types of cancer, such as Bladder Cancer, it is helpful to know about normal cells and what happens when they become cancerous. The body is made up of many types of cells. Normally, cells grow and divide to produce more cells only when the body needs them. This orderly process helps keep the body healthy. Sometimes cells keep dividing...
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Birth Control Pills African American Women
1,049 wordsIntroduction Breast cancer is only one of 200 different types of cancer. It is considered a woman's disease but both men and women have the disease. Every year, more than 200, 000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Twelve percent of all women will get the disease and 3. 5 % of them will die. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among women who are 40 to 55 years old. Cancer occurs when cells divide uncontrollably. Cells keep dividing even though new cells are not needed. Change from ...
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Benign Tumors Malignant Tumors
1,817 wordsSarcoma Sarcoma, highly malignant tumor arising in connective- and muscle-cell tissue. It is the result of oncogenes (the cancer causing genes of some viruses) and proto-oncogenes (cancer causing genes in human cells). It may affect bone, cartilage, blood vessels, lymph nodes, and skin. Soft tissue sarcomas are malignant (cancerous) tumors that can develop from fat, muscle, nerve, joint, blood vessel, or deep skin tissues. They can develop in any part of the body. Half of them develop in the arm...
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American Cancer Society Types Of Cancer
1,528 wordsRight now, cancer Cancer Cancer Right now, cancer is one of the most feared diseases in the world. In the early 1990 s almost 6 million new cancer cases developed and more than 4 million deaths from cancers occurred. Also more than one-fifth of all deaths were caused by cancer and it has been predicted, by the American Cancer Society, that about 33 % of Americans will eventually develop this disease. This is a huge disease that is killing people all over the world. The field of cancer study is c...
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Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Kill Cancer Cells
1,741 wordsThe pancreas Pancreas The Pancreas The pancreas is located in the middle of the abdomen. It s surrounded by the stomach, small intestine, liver and spleen. It s about six inches long and shaped like a thin pear, wide at one end. It has three sections: wider right end is the head, the middle is the body and the left end is the tail. The pancreas has two functions; to make enzymes that help digest fats and proteins and the other, to produce insulin that controls the blood sugar level called glucos...
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American Cancer Society Types Of Cancer
2,919 wordsCancer is a major killer of people all around the globe. We do not have a definite cure, but the amount of research done on this one disease costs on the average of $ 1. 2 billion dollars annually, and $ 20 billion annually in care of cancer patients. What is Cancer? Cancer is a broad ranging term that is used by many people, including medical professionals such as doctors. Cancer, in its most fatal and aggressive form, is of a larger class of diseases known as neoplasms. There are two forms of ...
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Kill Cancer Cells National Cancer Institute
2,161 wordsCancer of the Thyroid Statistics Cancer of the thyroid may be one of the less frequently occurring forms of cancer, but it is the most common malignancy of the endocrine system. Each year, more than 1, 100 Americans are diagnosed with thyroid cancer and most of them can expect to live a normal life span (Health Conn. html). The overall incidence of being diagnosed with thyroid cancer is about 1 out of every 1, 000 people (Health Answers. html). As with other thyroid conditions, more than twice a...
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