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What The Meaning of Cancer
Perhaps one of the most frequently used words and the most frightening when talking about health and disease of cancer. This report aims to explain basic concepts to understand what this group of diseases and the more knowledgeable, the most common type of cancer in our society.
Want to prevent the cancer
Although the causes of cancer is not known in many cases, and multiply factor, it is known about risk factors that increase the likelihood of cancer and should be avoided, methods such as smoking or smoking. Already have the vaccine approved recently against cervical cancer, which affects and kills hundreds of women around the world. Marketing of this vaccine has been approved in several countries, and adoption studies of vaccines against other skin cancer and prostate cancer.
Cancer prognosis
In fact, the prognosis of patients may change from time to time. Live shows the percentage of people with certain types of cancer and stage of the disease survive for a certain period after their diagnosis. Many factors of affect prognosis; including the type, location and stage diseases, patient age, overall health and response for treatment.
But there are big differences between the sexes and between more and less developed countries, which is a reflection of the various risk factors were dominant in both areas (eating habits and sexual infections …)
The most common cancer in women (in order) on the breast, cervix, colorectal and lung. Men in the lung, prostate, stomach and colorectal.
Number of cases increased slowly in the world, for two main reasons: increasing world population and increasing life expectancy, which involved aging. But you can not underestimate the significant increase in exposure to risk factors.
