Cancer is the disease which is associated with the maximum
number of myths. In my recent interaction with
a group of educated people, i came to know about very interesting myths
about cancer.
One of them said that there are cancer cells in everyone's body and everyone will have cancer at some
point of the time. One had a view that once a cancer has been diagnosed ,it
means death. For cancer is a single disease with multiple causative agent. One
of the
lady said that only way to prevent cancer is to live in a jungle.
Well to be straight forward , Cancer is not a single disease
but a group of disease with similar way of origin spread and similar kind of
treatment. In our body we can have more than 200 different type of cancers. Cancer is a disease in which
the cell of the body becomes autonomous and evade the normal process of
division , repair and death . They grow and divide at their own speed and take
over the body's metabolism for their own growth.
The risk factors related to the cancer can be genetic ,
environmental exposure to harmful chemical for a long duration in any form or
any form of disease or infection leading to chronic cell damage. So its not something which will happen in a
blow.
With recent advancement in cancer therapeutic , diagnostic
modalities , the overall survival in cancer has increased significantly. It is
being diagnosed early and treated early to the extent that few of the cancer
has been listed as curable cancers like colon cancer , early breast cancer.Only factor which will further improve the further care is awareness among people, early diagnosis with the help of screening and promptly seeking treatment.
