What Recently Diagnosed Cancer Patients Need to Know
Being diagnosed with cancer is a scary event.
This page for recently diagnosed cancer patients will tell you everything you need to know from coping with cancer, what to ask your doctors and more.
What is Cancer?
Cancer is a complex group of over 100 different types of cancer. Cancer can affect just about every organ in the human body.
How Does Cancer Develop?
The organs in our body are made up of cells. Cells divide and multiply as the body needs them. When these cells continue multiplying when the body doesn't need them, the result is a mass or growth, also called a tumor.
These growths are consider either benign or malignant. Benign is considered non-cancerous and malignant is cancerous.
Benign tumors rarely are life threatening, unless they occupy a cruicial space which is sometimes confined and limited, they do not spread to other parts of the body. They can be easily dissolved from the body by Homeopathic medicines.
How Does Cancer Spread to Other Parts of the Body?
The cells within malignant tumors have the ability to invade neighboring tissues and organs, thus spreading the disease.
It is also possible for cancerous cells to break free from the tumor and enter the blood stream and spreading the disease to other organs.
This process of spreading is called metastasis.
When cancer has metastasized and has affected other areas of the body, the disease is still referred to the organ of origination.
For instance, if cervical cancer spreads to the lungs, it is still called cervical cancer, not lung cancer.
Although most cancers develop this way, diseases like leukemia do not. They affect the blood and the organs that form blood and then invade nearby tissues.
All cancers are different, and require different treatment. What may be effective for prostate cancer, probably will not be for bladder cancer. Diagnosing cancer will vary as well, depending on the organ affected.
Fast Facts About Cancer
One in three people will develop cancer.
One in four people will die of cancer.
In 2005, about 1.4 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed.
More than 1500 people died each day of cancer this year.
Over 1,000,000 cases of skin cancer will be diagnosed this year.
Cancer is the leading cause of death under the age of 85.
Cancer is a broad term used to describe hundreds of malignant diseases that can develop in the body. It can develop is just about every part of the body, from the eyes to the heart. Each type of cancer is unique, possessing different causes, symptoms, and treatments.
Other types of Cancers
AIDS Related Cancer, Anal Cancer, Bladder Cancer, Bone Cancer, Brain Cancer, Breast Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Colon Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Eye Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Gynecologic Cancer, Head and Neck Cancer, Kidney Cancer, Laryngeal Cancer, Leukemia, Liver Cancer, Lung Cancer, Lymphoma, Melanoma, Multiple Myeloma, Oral Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Renal Cell Cancer, Skin Cancer, Stomach Cancer, Testicular Cancer, Throat Cancer, Thyroid Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Vaginal Cancer, Vulvar Cancer.
