What are Cancers?
Cancers are diseases that are characterized by the rapid spread and mutation of certain cells of the body. We tend to think of cancers as being foreign to the body, but they are, in fact, made of our own cells, though they have mutated. Different cancers have different causes. Exposure to toxins, radiation, and certain viruses can all cause changes to DNA structure in individual cells, resulting in the rapid and atypical spread of cells. Cancers are classed by the tissues that mutated to form them. There are numerous types. Carcinoma is the most common, and is made up of cells that would normally function in our lungs, breasts, prostates, and colons. When cancerous cells, which are atypical, form and rapidly produce in these areas, we get lung, breast, prostate or colon cancer. Lymphoma forms tumors made from bone marrow and blood cells. This type may also be called Leukemia. Sarcomas are made up of tissue that forms cartilage, bone and blood. The cells that line our lungs and perineum
Oncologists (cancer Doctors) would have you believe that cancers are some myriad collection of loosely-related, locally specific disruptions to cell biology that, therefore require local treatment only. Nothing could be further from the truth (although truth, as we have seen above, is a somewhat foreign concept in this most ineffective of medical specialities). In fact, all cancers have the same origins and develop by the same process, for the same reasons. As this might suggest, It is merely a question of which part of the body is affected that decides which of the various cancers result. Cell damage Unbeknown to most of us, an immense battle rages continuously inside our bodies, of epic proportions. Every day, millions of cells are born, other millions die and massive numbers are damaged either in the course of their various functions or as a result of external influences. Like all finely-tuned machines, this damage must be repaired if the machine (that is you and me) is to carry on
