Cancer Information
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“One of the most important keys to good health is good information”Dr. Danny Welch, NFCR Center Director, University of Alabama-Birmingham
The name for diseases in which the body's cells become abnormal and divide without control. Cancer cells may invade nearby tissues.And they may spread through the bloodstream and lymphatic system to other parts of the body.
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“One of the most important keys to good health is good information”Dr. Danny Welch, NFCR Center Director, University of Alabama-Birmingham
The name for diseases in which the body's cells become abnormal and divide without control. Cancer cells may invade nearby tissues.And they may spread through the bloodstream and lymphatic system to other parts of the body.
Cancer occurs when cell division gets out of control. Usually, the timing of cell division is under strict constraint, involving a network of signals that work together to say when a cell can divide, how often it should happen and how errors can be fixed. Mutations in one or more of the nodes in this network can trigger cancer, be it through exposure to some environmental factor (e.g. tobacco smoke) or because of a genetic predisposition, or both. Usually, several cancer-promoting factors have to add up before a person will develop a malignant growth: with some exceptions, no one risk alone is sufficient.
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