Cancer

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importance, benign tissue does not metastasize, or begin to grow in
other sites, like malignant tumors do. Cancer always refers to metastasized
tumors but the term tumor is not always necessarily cancer. A tumor is any
living tissue that is distinguishable as abnormal living tissue. After a
cancer forms, it can also change from a benign to a malignant state, therefore
making the cell grow at a more rapid rate. The development of the cell starts
when it forms notable abnormalities in chromosomes and then multiplies
exceedingly. Then metastasis usually occurs and generally causes the death of
the host. There are many different cancers which form on just about all parts of
the body. In the US, skin cancer is the most common cancer, then prostate
cancers in males, and then breast cancer in women. Leukemia is clearly the
dominant cancer in children. The number one killing cancer in the world today is
lung cancer, mostly caused by the smoking of cigarettes. Some researchers ...

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chances of getting a cancer of the uterus (in women). Aflatoxin B is a substance
produced by the mold Aspergillus that causes a number of cancer, but generally
liver cancer. Many carcinogens have not been discovered but research is being
done to discover other carcinogens to keep people aware and safe. There are also
many different biological agents which cause cancers. The most common biological
agents are the oncogenic viruses that commonly bring about the formation of
neoplasms in some smaller animals. Also some of these viruses are thought to
cause human cancers, and one has even been proven to cause leukemia. These
viruses can be split into DNA viruses and RNA viruses, ...

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