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What is cancer?
What does it do?

For example, a tumour on the pancreas can grow to block the bile duct, leading to the patient developing obstructive jaundice. And a brain tumour can push on important parts of the brain, causing blackouts, fits and other problems. Even benign tumours can cause these problems if located in the wrong place. When a cancer invades nearby tissues, it can cause bleeding from damaged blood vessels, and stop the organ which it is are invading from working properly.

What happens if it spreads?

As a tumour grows, cells can break off and start growing on adjacent tissues and organs. For example, if bowel cancer has spread through the wall of the bowel itself, it can start growing on the bladder. Cells can also enter the bloodstream and travel to distant organs, such as the lungs or brain. The technical term for this is ’metastasis’.

When new tumours form on distant organs, they behave like the original tumour - so a bowel cancer cell growing in the lung will not be lung cancer. Once other organs are involved, then any symptoms of the cancer can get worse. However, it may be some time before a growing cancer in certain parts of the body produces symptoms that the patient can notice.

Once a cancer has started to spread beyond its original site, then the chances of a cure often begin to fall, as it becomes more difficult to treat.

How is it treated?

There are three principal ways of treating cancer. The first is surgery, normally an operation to remove the cancerous growth, and (depending on its type) nearby tissues and organs. A cancer patient may first undergo a minor operation called a biopsy to take a small sample of the cancer for analysis. The surgeon will try to remove as much of the cancer as possible, but sometimes extra treatment will be needed. This could either take the form of radiotherapy or chemotherapy, or a combination of treatments.

How does chemotherapy work?

Chemotherapy either kills cancer cells or stops them dividing. In the same way that different bacteria are sensitive to different antibiotics, different cancers are sensitive to different types of chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy reaches the cancer cells through the bloodstream and destroys them as they’re in a dividing phase (two cells divide into four, four cells divide into eight, etc). Not all cancer cells are in the dividing stage, some will be in the resting stage and chemotherapy is unable to destroy them.The side-effects of chemotherapy

Chemotherapy can produce different reactions in different people and side-effects can change from treatment to treatment. Since most side-effects are temporary, they will gradually disappear when your treatment is complete. There is no connection between the extent of side-effects you experience and the effect of the chemotherapy on your cancer. In other words, if you don’t have any side-effects it doesn’t mean that the treatment is not working.

Some side-effects can be tiresome, but you and your doctor must weigh this against the benefits of treatment. It's important that you talk about any side-effects and how you are managing with your chemotherapy team as there are many ways your treatment team can help.

The main areas affected by chemotherapy are those where normal cells divide quickly:

Bone marrow
Mouth
Digestive system (stomach and bowels)
Hair
Skin
Reproductive organs (ovaries and testes)

Types of cancer
Bladder cancer - signs of this common cancer can be spotted at an early stage
Bone cancer - most cases are caused by a primary cancer elsewhere in the body
Bowel cancer - with early diagnosis bowel cancer is one of the most treatable
Brain cancer - treatments depend on the type and location of the tumour
Breast cancer - the most common form of cancer in women in the UK
Cervical cancer - regular smear tests can detect the early stages
Colorectal cancer - with early diagnosis bowel cancer is one of the most treatable
Endometrial cancer - cancer of the womb rarely occurs before the menopause
Kidney cancer - blood in the urine is an early symptom
Laryngeal cancer - cancer of the larynx commonly develops on the vocal chords
Leukaemia - a term used to describe a number of cancers of the blood cells
Lung cancer - nine out of ten cases in the UK are caused by smoking
Childhood lymphoma - this disease attacks the system that helps the body fight infection
Adult lymphoma - what is a lymphoma and how is it treated?
Myeloma - multiple myeloma is a cancer of the bone marrow
Oesophageal cancer - signs and symptoms of this cancer are often related to swallowing food
Ovarian cancer - this cancer is difficult to diagnose, but there are symptoms
Pancreatic cancer - has few signs or symptoms
Prostate cancer - a healthy, low-fat diet may help prevent prostate cancer
Retinoblastoma - a malignant tumour that develops at the back of the eye
Skin cancer - most types of skin cancer are easily avoided
Stomach cancer - it's more common in men, particularly in late middle age
Testicular cancer - self-examination is key to early diagnosis and treatment
Vulval cancer - is most common in women over the age of 50
Womb cancer - the majority of cases, if caught early, are successfully treated by surgery

Some one that has been affected there words
I had to battle an aggressive bc last year...her2/neu, 3+++, positive nodes. While doing that my Mother and BEST friend in this entire world was DX with advanced lung cancer...stage IV. I was afraid she wouldn't even try to do chemo at her age (77) but she did. She was a real trooper. She fought hard.

But just recently we had to place her in hospice & they just called me and told me she passed away today. I *thought* I was ready for this since I knew it was coming...but I LOST it when they told me. I am so THANKFUL I went down to hospice last night to see her. She always worried so much about me so I told her not to worry about me..I'll be ok. To go home and be with her Mom. (She had been calling out loud for wks for her mother.) So I don't know if it was what I told her last night...but I hope and pray she heard me? But she is at peace now. But I am sitting her beside myself with un-believeable grief that I have never experience before. I can't express how bad I feel. I feel like someone ripped my heart out of my chest...I don't know how to go on. My Mother was EVERYTHING to me. I can't type through these tears. Did I mention how much I HATE CANCER!!!! Oh how I pray for a cure for this darned diease.

Heart broken and feel so alone.

A women with cancer who has had chemotherapy
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People die of cancer i just wanted people to know how it is and how people loose family donations to cancer research help alot i just want ngu to be aware of how horrible cancer is one of my family members has died and it isnt nice

Over the next few months, as you have more chemotherapy treatments, the cancer cells that were resting will start to divide. This is why a number of chemotherapy treatments called cycles make up a course of treatment.

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If you're going to post this; you must include the following [AT LEAST]:

1. Microwaves are VERY cancerous to use (proven). The radioactive wave that transmit through your food is extraordinarily harmful. It takes nutrients out of the food, depending on the time, thus placing radioactive cells in.

2. Cellular Devices. Cell Phones are proven to cause cancer as well. The radioactive towers that pick up the cell's waves transmit to and from the destination point(s). This means that waves are passing through your body at all times. Ex. If you have your phone in your pocket, it will surpass the crotch region, etc. etc.

Hope these helped.

I don't use the microwave unless I am starving. I mainly use the toaster/stove.

I am 15, and just got a phone for my birthday two months ago. The main reason it was put off was for those reasons. ^

-Poseidon

hope she gets better man

I think you missed "what is chemotherapy?"

so does it mean its the end soon :confused: :O

cheomopherapy added

Cancer is a strange thing.....
We yet to fully understand it. Debated if it been around for years or all the time.

In fact when you look at cells there a overall limit of times cells can remake before they do something wrong.
Some research been done into how many times this can happen for aging research.
Only problem was they could not prove it to aging same goes for cancer.
They are unsure what the cause is.

More factors the harder it to track what did what. Add on to the fact different factors react to each other etc
All gets more messy then a tax return form!!

There been debate about cell phones and cancer for years. Again no study been able to prove it does.
Even studies not supported by cell phone makers not been able to get a link.

Last thing cancer is a very human thing , it being attacked by the very thing which keeps us alive.

good post, my aunt died from breast cancer and my grandma has it