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Welcome to the Cancer Resource and Article Site
Our online cancer resource and article site will try to provide you with a vast amount of cancer illness related information. We decided instead of concentrating on one type of illness or treatment that we would put together a resource that has a vast amount of content. We have searched for articles and resources from nationwide cancer experts and professionals. .
Defining Cancer
Every minute, ten million cells divide in the human body. Normally, cell division, accompanied by growth and specialized development, takes place in an orderly pattern. But when a cell becomes malignant, it acts in profoundly abnormal ways.
Cancer develops from a single cell that has undergone mutations in its DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the genetic material which carries the body's hereditary instructions. Instead of maturing normally and dying, cancerous cells reproduce without restraint. It's not that they divide faster, but that they never stop dividing, and they fail to mature. When removed from the body and placed in a laboratory dish with nutrients, they actually seem to be immortal.
Causes of Cancer
Researchers would be glad to find a single, major cause of cancer, but cancer represents many diseases, each consisting of a complex, multistage process.
What seems clear is that some cancers have much more to do with our lifestyles than with our genetic inheritance. This is indicated by the finding that when people migrate from one country to another, they and their descendants pick up patterns of cancer in their adopted country. For example, when Japanese people move to the U.S., they lose the high risk for gastric cancer which exists in Japan and assume Americans' high risk for cancer of the colon and breast.
Extensive, worldwide population studies suggest that factors limited to race or genetics play a relatively small role in causing cancer. In fact, only about ten percent of cancers are truly genetic. However, it is increasingly clear that genetic predisposition combined with environmental factors is the major cause of cancer.
Cancer Articles
This site has a large selection of cancer related articles. As you can see we have article covering topics pertaining to Breast-Cancer, Ovarian-Cervical-Utherine-Cancer, Colon-Rectal-Cancer, Prostate-Cancer, Lung-Mesothelioma-Abestos, Leukemia-Lymphonia-Cancer, and Skin-Cancer.
These articles are the works of either medical or support professionals in the cancer field. Most of the articles will have contact information, so you if need more assistance on the topic the author can be reached. The articles above will either contain cancer illness background information, support options, and different types of treatment methods. We are constantly adding new articles as new topics need coverage. If you have an article that you would like to share with our viewers, please email me for addition.
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FlockOfPenguins.com, its management team or owners. Also, we strongly recommend that you do your own cancer reasearch regarding each subject that you are interested. Some authors will have different views and calculations than others. We are working on putting together a large list of the top cancer sites, you can find links to a handful in the left column. A majority of these sites are non-profit, government affliated cancer research providers that have a wealth of credible and helpful cancer related information.