THE KILLER DISEASE: CANCER
Cancer can best be Heated if detected early. In many instances it can be completely cured. Countless people who have been treated have lived long, healthy lives, with no new sign or symptom of cancer.
Why are people so afraid of cancer?
The reasons vary, but they usually include some of the following:
Despite the progress that has been made in regard to this disease, old attitudes persist that little if anything can be done about it.
Even today, cancer is the second greatest killer among diseases.
Cancer can attack people of all ages—men, women, and children. It can affect almost any part of the body.
The disease seldom issues clear and obvious warnings. There is no general lest that can definitely rule out all possibility of cancer.
These are, indeed, reasons for regarding cancer as a serious enemy. But they are not reasons for becoming panicky. Even though the enemy has not been wiped out, he is being cornered.
We do not understand why cells sometimes go on multiplying until there is too much tissue. That is what a tumour is: a lump or mass produced by the unchecked growth of cells in some part of the body.
Tumours are either benign or malignant. A benign tumour may be large or small. It may become so large that it causes trouble because it occupies too much space. But it does not spread.
A cancer is a malignant tumour: a shapeless mass that keeps on growing in a disorderly fashion. Some cancers grow rapidly, some slowly. But they do not stop, nor do they remain confined to a small area. This is what makes them dangerous, and it is the reason why a person cannot afford delay in the treatment or removal of a cancer.
If not checked, cancers grow until the enlarging tissue crowds and presses on other organs of the body. The cancer prevents the organs from doing their proper work, and robs the healthy cells of their food and blood supply. Some cancers spread like wildfire, destroying the organs around them. Pieces of cancer tissue may break off and, carried by the blood or the. lymph, start growing in a new and perhaps distant part of the body.
WARNING
Only a doctor can tell whether a tumour is malignant or benign. Usually, a pathologist has to examine a bit of the growth under a microscope in order to know whether or not it is cancer. Never decide for yourself that it is only a harmless growth. Once a cancer has spread, the chances of a cure diminish rapidly.
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