These carcinogens can lead to many forms of cancer but the most common being lung cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer in men, and breast cancer in women. A cancer that is very common but many people do not fully understand or know about is Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) or Non-
Hodgkin’s disease or Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymph tissue found in the lymph nodes, spleen, liver and bone marrow. Lymph nodes are found in the Lymphatic System which is part of the Immune System. Hodgkin’s Lymphoma cells grow abnormally and spread around the body. As the disease progresses it compromises the body’s ability to fight infection. The earlier the disease is diagnosed; the more effective the treatment will be and in most cases can be cured.
Nausea, vomiting, hair loss, and sickness are common side effects of Chemotherapy that cannot be prevented because every human body handles different drugs differently. Unlike Chemotherapy, Interferon does not cause extreme illness or hair loss. Interferon is not a strong drug therefore it does not attack the body in such a great and painful way but it is just as effective in treating Cancer as Chemotherapy. The most known and reported side effect of Interferon is depression and suicide. Although they are major and terrifying side effects they are able to be managed and controlled with different therapies.
Even when Mesothelioma is caught early, there is just a ten percent chance the person will survive, and those odds will lower the more the cancer advances. Although Mesothelioma is not an extremely common cancer, it is extremely deadly. Those with a history of asbestos exposure should not wait for symptoms to arise; monitoring development of asbestos-related disease offers the most opportunity for effective
Jacky Huang Medical Report 10/18/11 1)Cause of Deficiency Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by out-of-control cell growth, and lung cancer occurs when this uncontrolled cell growth begins in one or both lungs. Rather than developing into healthy, normal lung tissue, these abnormal cells continue dividing and form lumps or masses of tissue called tumors. Tumors interfere with the main function of the lung, which is to provide the bloodstream with oxygen to be carried to the entire body. Most lung cancers are the result of inhaling carcinogenic substances. Carcinogens are a class of substances that are directly responsible for damaging DNA, promoting or aiding cancer.
Skin cancer is a disease in which skin cells lose the ability to divide and grow normally. These abnormal skin cells can grow and form a mass or "tumor." A skin tumor is considered benign (not cancerous) if it is limited to a few cell layers and does not invade surrounding tissues or organs. If the tumor
Obesity in America Calvin S. Smith October 13, 2013 As Americans, the people of this great nation have lots of health problems. A few of its terrible medical woes are: breast cancer, lung disease, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s. But one of those is not obesity. Obesity, or being extremely overweight, is not a disease of the body, but of the mind. Sure, several different medical problems can cause people to be overweight, however, those are far and few between.
With the exception of the non-melanoma skin cancer known as basal cell cancer, which originates from the lowest level of epidermis, rarely metastasizes or kills, and is not only easily treatable via surgery and/or radiation but can be completely eliminated, often without scarring, with proper treatment (Brooks and Brooks 109; Venes et al, eds. 1987), cancer is often either deadly or recurrent or chronic or can even lead to other cancers, given that cytotoxic drugs used to treat certain kinds of cancer can in turn damage chromosomes to the point where secondary malignancies are caused (Venes et al, eds. 324). Given that cancer is more common in the elderly, since more people are living to an old age, the incidence of cancer in the world is expected to increase (Venes et al, eds. 324).
One of the bigger causes is smoking. Simply do not smoke and this cause is not a worry. People who smoke are more likely to develop this cancer, in particular squamous cell carcinoma. Another avoidable cause is heavy drinking. If a person were to drink heavily and smoke, they would both work together as enablers and increase the risk even more.
Cancer is a group of diseases that all have out of control growth of cells in common. If that out of control growth of cells occurs in the lungs it would be lung cancer. The collection or mass of those cells in a central spot would form a tumor. Depending on what type of tumor has grown would determine if you have cancer. A benign tumor is a tumor that does not spread throughout the body and stays in the original mass location (Workplace Advantage, 2010).