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Doctors think a lot of it can. Established preventive methods including not smoking, preventing sun damage, practicing safe sexual behavior, eating a high-fiber, low-fat diet, and having regular Pap tests would reduce the incidence of cancer. It's important to note that many people who develop cancer don't have any known risk factors.
In a few cancers such as retinoblastoma and in a small portion of the more common cancers such as a small proportion of breast and ovarian cancers there seems to be an inherited factor that researchers can partly identify. In most cancers, doctors assume that a person’s cells have a low threshold for becoming malignant. So that person will develop a cancer with relatively less prompting by a trigger such as cigarettes or the sun than another person whose cells have a higher threshold and who may be able to tolerate more exposure to a trigger without developing a cancer.
Cancer is when cells in the body change and grow out of control. Your body is made up of tiny building blocks called cells. Normal cells grow when your body needs them, and die when your body does not need them any longer. Cancer is made up of abnormal cells that grow even though your body doesn’t need them. In most types of cancer, the abnormal cells grow to form a lump or mass called a tumor.
Some of the cancers that most often affect men are prostate, colorectal, lung, and skin cancers.
The prostate is a gland that contributes to the production of semen, which carries sperm from the testicles. Prostate cancer is the most common male-only cancer.
Breast cancer is most often found in women, but men can get breast cancer too. About 1 out of every 100 breast cancers diagnosed in the United States is found in a man.
In fact, the links between diet, weight, and exercise and colorectal cancer risk are some of the strongest for any type of cancer. Other lifestyle-related factors associated with an increased risk of colon cancer include: smoking and heavy alcohol use.
Some of the cancers that most often affect women are breast, colorectal, endometrial, lung, cervical, skin, and ovarian cancers.
The five main types of gynecologic cancer are: cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar. (A sixth type of gynecologic cancer is the very rare fallopian tube cancer.)
Melanoma in skin pigment cells. Sarcoma in deep tissues. Ovarian germ (egg) cell tumors. Trophoblastic tumors in cells that develop into the placenta during pregnancy.
If you have experienced the menopause and are overweight or obese, you may be more at risk of developing breast cancer. This is thought to be linked to the amount of oestrogen in your body, as being overweight or obese after the menopause causes more oestrogen to be produced.
Mammography is the most common screening tool for breast cancer, but women with a high risk of the disease may be screened using an MRI. Diagnostic tools used for gynecologic and breast cancers often include: Imaging tests, like X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, PET scans and ultrasounds
Sometimes surgery alone will work for early-stage cancer of all types. But for many cancers, the best course of action is to use a combination of surgery plus other treatments, like chemotherapy and radiation therapies.
Chemotherapy is the general name that describes many different kinds of drugs used to fight cancer. Any drug or combination of drugs that kills, prevents growth or damages cancer cells is considered chemotherapy.
There are many drugs and combinations of drugs used to fight cancer. There are single dose agents, called single agent chemotherapy, or several drugs given at the same time called combination chemotherapy. Your doctor will work with you to find the best treatment option for you.
Radiation therapy, or radiotherapy, is the use of various forms of radiation to safely and effectively treat cancer and other diseases. Radiation oncologists may use radiation to cure cancer, to control the growth of the cancer or to relieve symptoms, such as pain. Radiation therapy works by damaging cells. Normal cells are able to repair themselves, whereas cancer cells cannot. New techniques also allow doctors to better target the radiation to protect healthy cells.
Radiation therapy can be delivered in two ways, externally and internally. During external beam radiation therapy, the radiation oncology team uses a machine to direct high-energy X-rays at the cancer. Internal radiation therapy, or brachytherapy, involves placing radioactive sources (for example, radioactive seeds) inside your body
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