According to World Health Organization statistics, more than 10 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed annually. The disease kills more than 6 million people each year, making cancer the second leading cause of death throughout the world.
In the United States alone, cancer has just eclipsed heart disease to become the countrys number one killer.
There is much that you can do to decrease your risk of cancer and to help your body to battle it should it strike. With a little education, you can arm yourself against this deadly enemy.
What Is Cancer?
Cancer is a group of many related diseases that begin in cells, the bodys basic building blocks. To understand cancer, it is helpful to know what happens when normal cells become cancerous.
Normally, cells grow and divide to produce more cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy. Sometimes, this orderly process goes wrong. New cells form when the body does not need them, and old cells do not die when they should. The extra cells form a mass of tissue called a growth, or tumor. Not all tumors are cancerous; tumors can be benign or malignant.
Benign tumors are not cancer. They...
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