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Cancer, its causes and effects
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Cancer, its causes and effects Matthew Bradfield What we think of as "Cancer" is actually a group of more than one hundred separate diseases. These diseases are all characterized by an abnormal and unregulated growth of cells. This growth destroys surrounding body tissues and may spread to other parts of the body in a process that is known as metastasis. The most common cancers include: Skin cancer, Lung cancer, Brain cancer, Breast cancer, Prostate cancer, Colon cancer, ovarian cancer, Leukaemia and Lymphoma but there are many others as well Cancer can develop anywhere in the body, and at any age. Unlike infectious diseases such as AIDS, the flu or TB, cancer is not contagious - cancer is usually caused by genetic damage that happens inside an individual cell. Cells affected by cancer are called malignant cells. Malignant cells are different from normal cells in the body in that they divide...
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