The Challenges Of Cancer

In life, humankind faces many challenging questions. One of those challenges is cancer. Cancer is a disease humankind has yet to find a cure for. Cancer is a serious disease that can lead to the news that can change someone’s life forever. Unlike many diseases, cancer does not involve one specific location in the human body. Instead, it involves many organs and tissues that can cause over one hundred types of cancer. Cancer is not a new disease affecting our species. The first case of cancer dates back to 3000 BC back when the Egyptians were walking the Earth. Humans did not know where to begin when cancer was first discovered. Early doctors believed cancer was incurable and the unfortunate faced certain death. Researchers have yet to pinpoint

Researchers have finally narrowed it down to cells mutating when they are going through division, resulting in cancer cells. In the beginning, there was no explanation for how cancer cells were formed in the human body and why the cancer cells were able to come back so quickly. “Cancer begins when cells in a part of the body start to grow out of control. There are many kinds of cancer, but they all start because of out-of-control growth of abnormal cells” (American Cancer Society, 2014, p. 1). Over the years, cancer has been the medical professional’s main priority through the years. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world, thus leading to other medical professionals around the world also looking for a cure. “Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. About one-half of all women in the U.S. develop cancer during their lifetimes. Today millions of people are living with cancer or have had cancer” (American Cancer Society, 2014, p. 1). Sometimes not all cancer cells are killed of removed from a patient, leading those abnormal cells to grow back. Cancer can also spread through the body. Once the cancer cells reach some of the main organs in the body it can spread like a wild fire, escalating the stage of cancer. “A cancer that has spread from the place where it first started to another place in the body is called metastatic cancer” (American Cancer Society, 2014, p.1). Cells are the basic building block of life that are constantly being grown in the human body to replace old cells. Cancer cells are cells that can duplicate faster than the average cell, the more these cells duplicate the bigger the tumor mass gets. “Cancer is a genetic disease–that is, caused by changes to genes that control the way our cells function, especially how they grow and divide” (American Cancer Society, 2014, p.1). Some people do not