Symptoms And Treatments Of Cancer - 1148 Words

Incurable and slowly deteriorating billions of bodies worldwide, Cancer is one of the biggest killers in the world. Sometimes going undetected, Cancer causes cells to divide uncontrollably and if gone undetected or if treatment fails, is extremely deadly to both humans and animals. Cancer can be located almost anywhere in the body and is able to spread everywhere if uncontained. The treatments most often used to treat Cancer are chemotherapy and radiation. Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses different medication and chemicals, inserted through I.V and pills, to rid of any Cancer in the body. Radiation is the use of radiation to target and obliterate cancer cells. Radiation can be done externally by machine or internally through the use†¦show more content†¦Additionally, although there is a lot of newly discovered information on Cancer cells, understanding them can be difficult and is the basis for developing a specialized treatment for an individual. Cancer cells divide and grow uncontrollably. While embedded in our DNA are genes that produce the necessary outline for the proteins that make up our body; some of these proteins cause abnormal growth as a result of mutations in our genes. Healthy cells for example, stop the production of cells if there is a sufficient amount, however, Cancer cells continuously produce cells even when it is not necessary. Healthy cells obtain the ability to communicate with other cells through the use of chemical signals which usually inform the cells of when to stop growing. Cancer cells do not obtain this ability to communicate along with their anti-growth signal. Cancer cells also lack the ability to repair any damages done to them which is known as apoptosis. Also, Cancer cells appear very differently than healthy cells do. They are darker in the nucleus due to an excess of DNA, are diverse in their mostly abnormal shapes and have a disorganized chromosome display. A crucial fact and major difference about these tw o types of cells is their ability and inability to bypass the immune system. Damaged healthy cells are discarded, but Cancer cells have the ability to avoid the