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What is Cancer?

Simply speaking, cancer is an invasive growth or tumor with a tendency to metastasize, or spread, to other sites. In Cancer, cells grow out of control and can then invade nearby tissues or spread throughout the body. Large clumps of this abnormal tissue are what make up tumors. Dangerous Malignant Tumors can spread and threaten someone's life, while Benign (non-cancerous) Tumors will not. It can months or even years for a tumor to get large enough to notice in an area such as the breast.

In a normal healthy body the tissue cells have a certain life expectancy. The cells will grow, divide, and die after a period of time. The dead cells are replaced by new healthy cells. The cell of an adult will usually divide only to replace the old worn out cells or to repair damaged cells. Cancer cells are different. They will continue to grow and divide, outliving normal cells.

 

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  Cancer Facts

Cancer cells will often travel to other parts of the body where they begin to divide, grow, and replace normal tissue cells. This is called metastasis. Cancer travels to the different body areas through the bloodstream or lymph vessels.

Cancer cells develop when a person's DNA becomes damaged. It is normal for DNA to become damaged, but most of the time the damaged DNA is easily repairable by the body. In cancer cells however, the damaged DNA is not repaired, but remains damaged. When people inherit cancer it is through this damaged DNA. Many cancers are not inherited, but are caused when a person’s DNA becomes damaged by exposure to a substance in the environment, such as the smoke from cigarettes.

Cancer usually forms as a tumor. A tumor is a collection, or group of abnormal cells. One common cancer that does not form tumors is leukemia. Leukemia cancer cells involve the blood and blood-forming organs (such as bone marrow), and circulate through other tissues where they grow.

Not all tumors are cancerous. Benign (noncancerous) tumors do not spread to other parts of the body and are rarely life-threatening.

 

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