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What is Cancer?
Cancer is the general collection of diseases that are caused by abnormal, uncontrolled growth, metastasis, or invasion in a a group of cells.
What are the Most Common Forms of Cancer?
The most common forms of cancer in individuals are reported by the American Cancer Society (ACS). The common forms were determined based on the highest number of occurrences from the ACS statistical data. Here is a list of the 10 most common types of cancer followed by the number of new incidences reported so far in 2008:
- Bladder Cancer
- Breast Cancer (Both Male & Female)
- Colon and Rectal Cancer(Combined)
- Endometrial Cancer
- Kidney Cancer (Renal Cancer)
- Leukemia
- Lung Cancer (Bronchus Included)
- Melanoma (Skin Cancer)
- Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Pancreatic Cancer
What are the Available Cancer Treatments?
Typical cancer treatments consist of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone therapy, biological therapy, cancer drugs, and bisphosphonates to name a few. Chemotherapy is one of the most commonly used cancer treatment and the phrase chemotherapy literally stands for ‘drug treatment’. The terms simply means treatment by way of cell killing drugs (also known as cytotoxic drugs).