Written by Rita Goldman
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
According to studies, cancer cells can affect any part of your body, even the smallest parts can be afflicted with cancer. The saddest thing about this disease is that the cancer cells can break away from the original part affected and spread out to other parts of your body. You can say that cancer is one of the most uncontrollable and unpredictable diseases known to mankind.
There are a lot of forms of cancer. The vast list, if every type of cancer is enumerated, wont even fit in five pages. The main cause of cancer is still unknown, experts can only tell us about the risk factors that increases the possibility of cancer development. We should be avoiding all of these factors especially if we have a history of cancer cases in our family.
Lets start with the commonly known cancer forms. One of the popular cancers afflicting most humans is lung cancer. This is also known as the top killer cancer in the society because both smokers and non-smokers can be affected. The next one on the list of top cancer killers is breast cancer. Women are commonly affected by this type of cancer although a few men are also afflicted with the same disease. The estimated number of deaths every year from breast cancer and lung cancer combined reaches more than two hundred thousand in America alone.
Colon and rectal cancers come in third place in the top killer cancer list, followed by pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and leukemia respectively. Other types of cancer that made the list include skin cancer, endometrial cancer, bladder cancer, thyroid cancer, and a whole lot more. There are some cases wherein patients are afflicted with more than one form of cancer. Just imagine the pain theyre going through if more than one of their body parts experience unimaginable discomfort.
There are hundreds of cancer types which can also affect children at their very young age. Cancer is plaguing the society because there is still no sure cure for this kind of disease. There are some cases of miraculous healing from incorporating several medical procedures as well as other alternative ways of healing however, the incrementing mortality rates from cancer still proves that there is a desperate need of research for the sure cancer cure.
Prevention is still better than cure so better safeguard yourself from acquiring cancer by avoiding all of the risk factors associated with it. If you have been diagnosed with cancer, dont loose hope. Have faith that you will be cured. Most people who have been cured from cancer are those who had the strongest faith during their battle against the dreadful disease.
