Imagine a cure for cancer

Back in the early part of the 1990’s a film called ‘The Medicine Man’ was released, a story that revolved around a research scientist who discovers the cure for cancer, only to lose it in a local disaster; fortunately there is a worldwide research program being carried out and it’s just a matter of time. Think about that for a moment; can you even imagine the impact this would have on our world if the suffering of so many people could be put to an end? Because we don’t fully understand exactly what causes cancer it means that we can only take certain precautions to avoid it.

There are theories that we all have it and it just takes something to start it off, but what is cancer? The word cancer is often used by some to explain something that spreads out of control; this is what happens with a population of cells that increase in size by replication, similar to the amoeba; although cancer is able to spread to neighboring cells and other parts of the body.

A cancerous tumor keeps growing but a benign one is self-limiting and generally won’t cause any harm to the body. There are rare occasions when a benign tumor changes to a malignant one. The disease may affect people of all ages and there is an increased risk of suffering from the more common cancers as you get older; cancer is responsible for about 13 percent of all deaths worldwide. Cancerous cells may have been transformed by radiation or poison for example and this creates genetic abnormality in those cells which then continue to grow and divide.

For some people the problem lies not with any form of external poison although faults with their parents DNA or genetic makeup can result in a person being born with the diseased cells. It would seem some people are more susceptible to it than others and it may be their genetic makeup and their exposure to certain carcinogens that is responsible.

Research into the cause of cancer continues around the globe and is the disease most frequently studied on a regular basis. More knowledge is being acquired about cancer each year. More information is being gathered about all illnesses and why some people are more prone to certain conditions. Knowledge like this could enable more people avoid contracting cancer in the first place.

One of the major causes surrounds food and dietary habits. Your regular diet could be putting you at long term risk from all kinds of diseases. People are generally eating too much of the wrong things such as an excess salt intake, too much saturated fat and certain dairy produce. Studies have shown that there is a connection between dairy produced calcium and prostrate cancer.

Cancer can strike anywhere in the body and each is a specialist type to the organ or part of the body it has infected. This is an insidious disease that can take a long time to surface but fortunately the number of forms that can be treated is increasing all the time. Although not it is not something anyone wants to be diagnosed with, cancer does not have to mean death these days, with the advances in medical treatment.

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