What is cancer and how many cancer types you know

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Cancer is one of deadliest disease in the world. But what is cancer ? How someone can be infected this cancer disease, what is karsinoma, sarkoma, leukimia,Limpoma and brain cancer ?. We will share together in this article.

What is cancer ?

Cancer is a disease that happened caused by existence of abnormal cell bisection without control and can disseminate to vinicity network. Cancer Cell can disseminate to other part in body passes blood stream and system limfatik.
Ferocious Tumor is called also cancer. Cancer haves potency to attack and destroy nearby network and generate metastasis. According to concept of cancer present day is gene disease. A normal cell can become cancer cell if by various of because happened imbalance between function onkogen and tumor gene suppresor in course of grow and its flower a cell. Change or mutation of causative gene the happening of hiperekspresi onkogen and or less / loss of function of tumor gene suppresor causes cell grows and expands uncontrollably. This Change walks in a few phase or that recognized by multistep process carcinogenesis.

Cancer not only is one disease type but set of some diseases. More than 100 types from cancer has been found. A large part of cancers are named according to organ or cell type where cancer cell starts exists. For example, cancer that started in colon is called colon cancer, cancer that happened first time in dropsy cell from skin called karsinoma dropsy cell.


Cancer Category

Following is category from some cancers:
1. Karsinoma : cancer that started from skin or network that protect interior organ.
2. Sarkoma : cancer that happened in bone, network of bone gristle, fat, muscle, vein, or link network.
3. Leukimia : cancer that happened in network that blood production like bone marrow and cause abnormal blood count improvement.
4. Limfoma and Myeloma : cancer that happened in immunity system
5. Central brain cancer : cancer that happened in brain tissue and bone marrow.