How come we even use cancer as a way to divide us?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 at
2:12 am
Christopher K asked:
Isn’t cancer the same disease, whether it’s of the lungs, breast, skin, or eyes, for that matter? Shouldn’t we come together and seek a cure for cancer as a whole?
Tagged with: Breast Skin • Cancer Disease • Cure For Cancer
Filed under: Cancer
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Smoking Effects
u need different treatments for each kind of cancer
Cancer from smoking
Finally someone who understands. I am going thru Thyroid Cancer right now my treatment is tomorrow I am having a total thyroidectomy. And it really ticks me off that other Cancer has more priority. In my eyes Cancer is Cancer its scary no matter which one you have.
Cancer from smoking
Yes and no.
While I agree that cancer should be fought on a combined front, the fact of the matter is that there are a myriad type of cancers, and no two types are caused by the same things, respond the same to treatment or even to detection. Some (such as prostate cancer) can go on for years without treatment – in fact most men will die of something else! Breast cancer on the other hand (or even ovarian cancer) takes far too many lives because the treatments don’t work or they’re not diagnosed earlier.
Cancer from smoking
There are almost 300 defined types of cancer. Most are named not for where they are but from the type of mutated cells they are formed by. e.g. Lung cancer can be found in the brain, skin cancer on the liver, etc.
The NCI takes a more even approach to spending research dollars by spending based on death and incident rates. BTW Men are more likely to have cancer in their lifetime and die from it. Breast cancer is 2nd worse cancer killer in women and gets most of the publicity.