INTRODUCTION: Cancer is a collection of over 100 different diseases that are cause by abnormal growth of body cells. It is one of the key diseases that is a "golden eggs laying goose" for Orthodox medicine. Cancer is usually classified according to the tissue from which the cancerous cells originated, as well as the normal cell type they look like or resemble.



CHILDRENS CANCERS: Amongst all age groupings, the most common childrens cancers are leukemia, lymphoma, and brain cancer. In nearly all cases, however, childhood cancers come from non-inherited changes in the genes of growing cells. Longer-term effects may include infertility, problems with growth, Damage of internal organs, or increased risk of other cancers.

The diagnosis and treatment of cancers in children requires time, and there are both short and long term side effects.

WOMAN: Many women with inflammatory breast cancer do not have any easily detectable lumps, which can make the disease very difficult to detect. Another challenge is that inflammatory breast cancer is more aggressive in younger women than most other breast cancer types.

Still, some benign breast conditions are important because women with these conditions have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. But not all women with lymph node involvement develop metastases, and it is not unusual for a woman to have negative lymph nodes and later develop metastases.

TREATMENTS: Different kinds of cancer have different signs, symptoms, treatments, and outcomes, depending on the type of cell involved and the degree of uncontrolled cell growth.

Each child's treatment differs, so a child may be given daily, weekly, or monthly chemo treatments. Radiation is one of the most common treatments for cancer. While surgery is usually all that is needed, these types of cancers may not respond very well to the other treatments used for invasive ductal or lobular breast cancer.

As research continues to develop, treatments are becoming more specific to different types of cancer. Also, histologic grading and the presence of specific molecular markers can also be useful for prognosis, as well as in determining individual treatments. Many experimental cancer treatments are also under development.

CONCLUSION: Cancer isn't caused by germs, like colds or the flu are. Cancer is a term for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and can invade other tissues.

Although controlling the symptoms of cancer is not typically thought of as a cancer treatment, it is an important determinant as to the quality of life of cancer patients, and plays an important role in the decision whether the patient is able to undertake additional treatments. Once diagnosed, it can be treated with a combination of surgery, chemo and radiotherapy. The cure and cause of cancer is within each of us.