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Cancer
This condition is all too commo, and is the second most frequent cause of death. The term “cancer” covers a group of allied disorders which have uncommon the unrestrained growth of some small part of the body with the formation of a lump or tumor.
Normally the growth of any particular part of the body is carefully regulated to meet with its requirements.
When some part jis injured the cells (minute lying structures) of which it is composed multiply until the injury is made good, at the whole process is controlled. In the condition of cancer, for some reason, a group of cells starts to multiply abnormally and continues to do so, disorganizing the normal working of the body Smoothies groups of these cells may be carried to distant parts of the body by the blood and there set up fish tumors. If the process continues unchecked some vital organ will eventually become so disorganized that life cannot continue.
It is vital the lay person should not take the all-too-curable if tken early- that is the point. The most effective treatment, in numerous instances, is still surgery, which means cutting out the affected part.
If all the cancer cells are removed jthe condition will be rued. The smaller the tumor, the less chance it has had to spread, and the more likely is complete cure. There adre also other valuable means of treatment such as radiotherapy, anti-tumor drugs, and certain hormones. Research indicts that some cancers are due to chemicals in the environment perhaps the greatest hope is prevention. Methods for detecting and identifying cancer-producing chemicals are being developed and will help to clean upour surroundings. Sources are industrial waste, car exhausts and cigarette smoke.
New treatments being developed include high energy irradiation such as neutron beams. New drugs and new combinations of old drugs are showing promise in some cancers.
The illness in not common before 40 and the incidence increases with age. Perhaps the cells become less efficient at dealing with injury due to irritant s over this age. THE KEYNOTE OF SUCCESS IS EARLY TREATMENT. Anyone who has a symptom which does not go inside a few weeks should consult a doctor. Danger signals are a lump in breast (see BREAST) or testicle, etc., persistent cough (more than three weeks), persistent change in bowel habit, loss of weight, persistent or recurrent pain and the appearance of blood, for example from the bowel, in urine, from the mouth after coughing or vomiting, from the nipple or from the vagina after the menopause or between periods. The chne are there may be some other explanation which your doctor will be able to put right. If yur doctor is suspicious he will be able to advise tests to establish the diagnosi.
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(See TRAVELSICKNESS.)
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