Month: August 2017

Some cancers occur more often in children. The following table shows their type and the percentage of the total cancers in childhood.

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Carcinoma: Any cancer that arises in epithelium, the tissue that lines the skin and internal organs of the body.

Sarcoma: Any cancer of connective tissue. These tumours may occur in any part of the body, as they arise in the tissues that make up an organ rather than being restricted to a particular organ. They can arise in fibrous tissue, muscle, fat, bone, cartilage, blood and lymphatic vessels, etc.

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As in any other disease, in cancer also, both the environmental as well as the genetic factors, play a role in the causation of the disease. Over the last few decades, it has been found that the environment plays a prominent role in the causation of most cancers. 80 to 90 per cent of all cancers are said to be dependant directly or indirectly on environmental factors. Cancer problem in the world and in India is fast increasing with the increasing industrialisation and the presence of innumerable chemicals and fumes in the environment, changes in life-style including smoking and eating habits.

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Tobacco tar obtained after distillation of tobacco and the same applied on the shaved skin of the mice for some weeks, produced in the skins of only some animals the cancerous changes.

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The suspicion that cancer of the mouth is somehow associated with the use of tobacco goes as far back as 1739 AD. In the nineteenth century, several cases of cancer of the mouth were reported in which chewing of tobacco was incriminated.

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Cancer of the prostate in men and of the breast in women can be greatly relieved by the removal of the testes and ovaries, respectively, in these patients, or by the removal of adrenal glands which are a secondary source of sex hormones in both sexes. Besides this, administration of counter-hormones (estrogens in males and androgens in females) in such cases also effects a marked improvement.

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Many cancers in animals, plants and birds have been recognized to be caused by viruses. Currently, it is being convincingly stated that leukaemia and Hodgkin’s disease— i.e. a malignant disease of lymphatic tissue—are associated with some kind of virus.

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During the nineteenth century, among the mine workers of the Schneeberg and Jachymov mines, now in Czechoslovakia, cases of lung cancer were detected in greater frequency than in the surrounding areas. It was later found out that these mines contained various radioactive substances which were the cause of cancer.

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Early detection of cancer is vital to its successful treatment. In order to do so, there are some symptoms and some risk factors which if present in a patient should arouse the suspicion of the disease. He should then consult urgently his physician or a specialist. The symptoms and risk factors are as follows:

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Transformation of normal cells into cancer cells in the body, is not a rare event. But the body’s defence or immunologic cells—lymphocytes and macrophages—at once recognise these abnormal cells and kill them before they get divided and subdivided into many more.

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