Your Guide To Cancer

Your easy to read guide to causes, prevention and treatment of cancers:

• lung cancer
• colo-rectal cancer
• stomach cancer
• breast cancer
• prostate cancer

Cancer occurs when the call DNA is mutated during replication. Early detection of cancer and it's successful treatment are resulting in improving survival rates and quality of life for cancer sufferers.

Cancer is becoming a global burden with 24.6 million people currently with cancer. By 2020 there will be an estimated 30 million with cancer, and over 10 million deaths per year.

The most common cancers are:

• Lung Cancer
• Colo-rectal Cancer
• Stomach Cancer

PLUS

Lung cancer kills more people than any other cancer. Some cancers are more common in developed than in developing countries: prostate, breast, colon. Liver, stomach and cervical cancer are more common in developing countries.

Causes Of Cancer

A number of causal factors have been linked to cancer:

• unhealthy lifestyle (tobacco and alcohol use, inadequate diet, physical inactivity)
• exposure to environmental carcinogens and infection (e.g. hepatitis B infection or human papillomavirus). Read how to reduce enviornmental cancer toxins

The common element in both these causal groups is toxins. More on causes of cancer...

Cancer Metastasis

Cancer generally spreads throughout the body to secondary sites, call metastasis. "A cancer tumor forms in a bed of healthy cells. The animation shows how the cancer tumor recruits blood vessels and how metastasis occurs." Learn more about how cancer metastasises.

Cancer Treatments

Treatment for cancer is an holistic protocol of:

• Reducing the causal factors such environmental cancer triggers
• Engaging in medical procedures such as:
  
  • Drug treatments
  • Natural treatments
  • Breakthrough medical procedures
  • Cyberknife robotics
• Managing the emotional impact of cancer and cancer treatments
• Reconstructive surgery

More on cancer treatment...

Cancer Prevention

Over 40% of all cancers can be prevented. Others can be detected early, treated and cured. Even with late stage cancer, the suffering of patients can be relieved with good palliative care. More on prevention of cancer...

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