Fight the Fight Against Cancer

After losing my cat, then my dog, and then my Dad to cancer, realized how little I know about the disease. Other than the fact that it can be brutally slow, and equally as fast to kill, there are SO many types...
The numbers are alarming, staggering, and sobering, all at the same time. Did you know that approximately 1500 people die each day in the United States due to cancer. About 3,400 people are diagnosed with cancer each day in the U.S.. In the U.S. and other developed countries, cancer is presently responsible for about 25% of all deaths. On a yearly basis, 0.5% of the population is diagnosed with cancer.
Cancer is a group of diseases in which cells are aggressive (grow and divide without respect to normal limits), invasive (invade and destroy adjacent tissues), and/or metastatic (spread to other locations in the body). These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited in their growth and do not invade or metastasize (although some benign tumor types are capable of becoming malignant). Cancer may affect people at all ages, even fetuses, but risk for the more common varieties tends to increase with age. Cancer causes about 13% of all deaths. Apart from people, forms of cancer may affect animals and plants.

Above information is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer

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Christine Gerbehy