Every day we hear about this bizarre ailment called Cancer.
All of at some point of time have come across a story of how someone died due to this disease. Be it in our own families or friends or relatives or neighbors everyone of us's life somehow is discreetly related to some victim of cancer. It is estimated that about 9 million new cancer cases are diagnosed every year and over 4.5 million people die from cancer each year in the world. The estimated number of new cancers in India per year is about 7 lac and over 3.5 lac people die of cancer each year.
But what do we exactly know About this Sickness? For most of us it is more like a myth that gets hold of a person and never lets go. Today there prevails a lot of false superstitions especially in India regarding Cancer. What we do need to do is get to know more about Cancer. Its Cause & Precautions.
What is cancer.
Cells are the building blocks of living things.
Cancer grows out of normal cells in the body. Normal cells multiply when the body needs them, and die when the body doesn't need them. Cancer appears to occur when the growth of cells in the body is out of control and cells divide too quickly. It can also occur when cells forget how to die. These abnormal cells then divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood arterial system of human body
Up to 85 per cent of cancers can be prevented by avoiding environmental risk factors like:
Cure:
All of at some point of time have come across a story of how someone died due to this disease. Be it in our own families or friends or relatives or neighbors everyone of us's life somehow is discreetly related to some victim of cancer. It is estimated that about 9 million new cancer cases are diagnosed every year and over 4.5 million people die from cancer each year in the world. The estimated number of new cancers in India per year is about 7 lac and over 3.5 lac people die of cancer each year.
But what do we exactly know About this Sickness? For most of us it is more like a myth that gets hold of a person and never lets go. Today there prevails a lot of false superstitions especially in India regarding Cancer. What we do need to do is get to know more about Cancer. Its Cause & Precautions.
What is cancer.
Cells are the building blocks of living things.
Cancer grows out of normal cells in the body. Normal cells multiply when the body needs them, and die when the body doesn't need them. Cancer appears to occur when the growth of cells in the body is out of control and cells divide too quickly. It can also occur when cells forget how to die. These abnormal cells then divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood arterial system of human body
Causes-
The vast majority of cancers are occasional.There is no clear cause why one person gets cancer and another does not.
A risk factor is anything that increases a person`s chance of developing cancer.
Different cancers have different risk factors.
- Use of tobacco,
- certain diets,
- alcohol,
- exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation,
- exposure to cancer causing agents (carcinogens)
in the environment and the workplace are some of the potential catalysts of cancer.However,these factors increase a person`s risk but do not always "cause" the disease.
Up to 85 per cent of cancers can be prevented by avoiding environmental risk factors like:
- smoking,
- sun exposure,
- alcohol abuse
- and poor nutrition.
Cure:
Even thought there is no verified cure for cancer yet. There are many different treatments for the disease.
- Boosting the immune system-
- Anti-cancer vaccine — based on exposing some cancer cells extracted from a tumour to UV rays for 24 hrs then injecting them back into the organism, this approach has already been successful on rats.
- Chemotherapy
- Gene therapy
- Photodynamic therapy
- Radiation therapy
- Reoviridae (Reolysin drug therapy)
- Targeted therapy
We would be going deep into all these above topics in the later blog posts.
Till then Keep Living and Loving.
May God Bless Us All.
"Hate you Cancer! We Are strong and We'll Defeat You"
