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INTRODUCTION: Cancer is a collection of over 100 different diseases that are cause by abnormal growth of body cells. It is one of the key diseases that is a "golden eggs laying goose" for Orthodox medicine. Cancer is usually classified according to the tissue from which the cancerous cells originated, as well as the normal cell type they look like or resemble.

CHILDHOOD CANCERS: Amongst all age categories, the most common child cancers are leukemia, lymphoma, and brain cancer. In nearly all cases, however, childhood cancers arise from non-inherited changes in the genes of growing cells. Longer term effects can include infertility, growth problems, organ damage, or increased risk of other malignancies.

The diagnosis and treatment of cancers in children requires time, and there are both short and long term side effects.

WOMAN: Many women with inflammatory breast cancer do not have any breast lumps, which can make the disease very difficult to detect. Another challenge is that inflammatory breast cancer is a more aggressive cancer in younger women than most other types of breast cancer.

Still, some benign breast conditions are important because women with these conditions have a higher risk of developing breast cancer. But not all women with lymph node involvement develop metastases, and it is not unusual for a woman to have negative lymph nodes and later develop metastases.

TREATMENTS: Different forms or kinds of cancer have different signs, symptoms, treatments, and outcomes, depending on the type of cell involved and the degree of uncontrolled celluar growth.

Every child's treatment differs, so a child may receive daily, weekly, or monthly chemotherapy treatments. Radiation is one of the most common treatments for cancer. While surgery is often all that is needed, these cancers may not respond as well to the other treatments used for invasive ductal or lobular breast cancer.

As research continues, treatments are becoming more specific to various forms of cancer. Plus, histologic grading and the presence of specific molecular markers can also be helpful in establishing prognosis, as well as in determining individual treatments. A variety of experimental cancer treatments are also being development.

CONCLUSION: Cancer isn't caused by germs or micro-organism, like colds or influenza are. Cancer is a term for diseases in which abnormal cells division occurs without control and can invade other bodily tissues.

Although the control of the symptoms of cancer is not usually thought of as a treatment for cancer, it is important in determining the quality of life of cancer patients, and plays an important role in the decision as to whether the patient is able to undergo other treatments. Once diagnosed, it is usually treated with a combination of surgery, drugs and radiotherapy. The cure and cause of cancer is within us.