Does anyone you know have cancer or have had it in the past?If you have you know how cancer is a very serious issue that kills millions of people.”Cancer affects 1 out of 3 people in the United States.” According to The American Cancer Society.This is why we need to know more about it and understand what is happening to people with cancer. Keep reading to become a little bit smarter!
(A dividing breast cancer cell, photo from "What is cancer" Cancer.gov)
What Even is Cancer?
There are many sorts of cancers, but with all of them there is a similar sort of action happening inside someone's body. Cancer is caused when old/damaged cells survive when they are supposed to die. Then new cells grow that are supposed to take the place of the old cells, but the old cells are still there. This causes something called a tumor.
Now there are two types of tumors and only one of them causes Cancer. It is a malignant tumor. This tumor will spread the cancer cells to other parts of your body. As a malignant tumors grows the cancer cells will spread even more to farther aways parts of your body and start to take over.
What Happens When The Cancer is Found?
When you find out that you have cancer, you have to take test’s. These tests help find out what stage of cancer you are at. When all these tests happen it is called the cancer stage.
There are many stages of cancer. It goes from stage one where you just started getting cancer and it has barley spread to stage 4 where it has spread a lot. The higher the number the worst the cancer is. There are different treatments for different stages of cancer. Hopefully you find out that you have cancer at stage 1!
What Causes Cancer?
There are many things that cause cancer but one thing that cancer cells have in common is that they develop because of multiple changes in their genes. You can get cancer from your parents, your lifestyle habits, and being exposed to agents that are cancer-causing. Cancer doesn’t always start from one thing, there can be many factors of your life that can also help cause cancer.
What You Do In Your Everyday Life That is a Role in Causing Cancer!
There are many things that may cause cancer but here are a few big ones!
The most obvious one that we all learn is bad is smoking. Also according to the American Cancer Society(ACS) the lifespan of smokers is at least 10 years shorter than non-smokers. Another big one is when you gain weight it can help cause it.
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