The Details About Cancer

Written by Ivory Chen

While we’ve all heard about the dark, scary stories surrounding the illness known as cancer, little people actually know the full explanation. Cancer is part of the many diseases that are known to multiply and spread. 

Normal cells are meant to divide and multiply on a controlled basis, while cancerous cells multiply and divide continuously, without control. This is what makes cancer treatment so intensive, since it’s essentially a race against time. Cancer ultimately starts if a cell translates incorrectly, leading to mutations in the cell’s genes, which changes the cell’s composition. As the cancerous cells multiply across the body, tumors form. Cancer cells can spread across the body if they break away from a tumor and travel through the bloodstream to reach elsewhere. 

Since the possibility of translation error is possible in any person, cancer development is truly random. While environmental factors may increase the possibility, such as smoking, exposure to radiation, etc. many people also may not develop cancer while experiencing these circumstances. 

While cancer is commonly portrayed as a deadly disease with very slim chances of survival, development of modern day technology has increasingly grown to the point that fewer people today are dying of cancer than 20 years ago.

Written by Ivory Chen from MEDILOQUY