Cancer : Cancer And Cancer

Cancer affects everyone. Most people in the world know someone who had cancer, has cancer, or passed away because of cancer. Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells that divide quickly and spread throughout the body. It is a group of over 100 different diseases that can appear anywhere on the body. With the disease cancer arising to become the biggest disease known to mankind, scientists have come up with many notes about cancer such as the origin, forms, like lung cancer, the stages, and ways to prevent or treat lung cancer.

Cancer has been around for millenniums. Cancer has been discovered in ancient manuscripts, fossilized bones, and mummies in Egypt. Without the word being used, cancer has been described to have been around in 3000 B.C. It is described in the Edwin Smith Papyrus, an old Egyptian book on trauma surgery. “The writing says about the disease, ‘There is no treatment’”(“Early History of Cancer.”). Later, during the century before the switch over to the “Anno Domini” time, a roman physician translated the Greek form of “carcinos” and “carcinoma” to cancer, which means crab, in latin ("Early History of Cancer.").

There are two things a normal cell can do when damaged, repair itself or die. Cancer cells on the other hand decide to do neither. They continue to grow and form new, non-normal cells. These cancer cells can invade other parts of the body than just the area in which they choose to be different. This is what makes a cancer cell a cancer cell. As explained before, when a cell is damaged, specifically the DNA, the cell chooses to neither repair itself nor die. It continues to live and forms new cells the body has no need for, and it also contains this broken DNA. Cancer spreading around the body can vary in time...

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...all together. Throughout all the fatalities of the wars America was involved in, smoking has killed 10 times more than that amount of people. Within the last 50 years smoking has been an increasing risk in people in the U.S. Smoking increases the likelihood to have both heart diseases and strokes. Although lung cancer is the main result of smoking, cigarette smoke can cause cancer is most places within your body. Cigarettes can destroy the human body. The CDC also states that smoking can affect bone health, teeth, gums, and most organs in the body. Another danger of cigarette smoking is for pregnant woman. Smoking can increase the chance for an early pregnancy, stillbirth, low weight, and SIDS or sudden infant death syndrome. It is certainly horrible to harm your own body, but when it comes to a life of another no person should take that chance ("Cigarette Smoking.").