Cause Of Cancer Research Paper

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Cancer is a disease where cells change and proliferate. Most kinds of cancer cells form a lump called a tumor. Tumors that are malignant are cancerous and intrusive. They destroy healthy cells. The cancer cells can go through metastasis, which means that they spread throughout the body. Unlike malignant tumors, benign tumors are non-cancerous and do not rapidly grow or go through metastasis. They are usually non-life threatening. In some cancers, such as blood cancers, tumors do not form; however, they are still life threatening because the cancer cells outnumber the healthy cells (American Cancer Society, 2015). Currently in America, 33.3% of women and 50% of men will get cancer sometime in his or her life (Siegel et al., 2012). In children from late infancy to early adulthood, cancer is the most common disease that causes death. The only cause of death in children that is higher than cancer is from accidents …show more content…
Ninety-eight percent of childhood leukemias are acute, where early abnormal cells proliferate in the bone marrow, crowding out the healthy hematopoietic tissue, where blood cells are made, and destroying it (Bowman, 1981). Acute leukemias can quickly progress and, if left untreated, can result in death within a few months (American Cancer Society, 2015). Acute myeloid leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia are a couple types of leukemia. In acute myeloid leukemia, myeloid refers to the type of cells where this leukemia originates, the bone marrow, from which it quickly migrates to the blood (American Cancer Society, 2015). Sometimes, it spreads to other body parts, such as the central nervous system, lymph nodes, spleen, testicles, and liver (American Cancer Soceity, 2015). In acute lymphocytic leukemia, the term lymphocytic implies that it begins in immature lymphocytes. (American Cancer Society, 2015). The causes of most acute leukemias remain unknown (Dores et al.,