Cancer Awareness for Men

Common Cancer in Man

100 Questions &
Answers About
Liver Cancer

• Colorectal Cancer

• Lung Cancer

• Prostate Cancer

• Liver Cancer

• Nasopharyngeal Cancer (back of the nose)

Each year, over 12 million people diagnosed with cancer and more than 7 million died of cancer.

Fortunately, about 40 percent of cancers are preventable.

What is Cancer?

Our body is made up of billions of cells which normally grow and multiply at a steady and controlled rate.

Within the cell are genes which direct and control all the cell’s functions and determine how and when it divides and grows.

In Cancer, some of these cells start to multiply uncontrollably due to a change in the set of instructions given by the genes.

This resulted in the cells not function normally and forms a growth known as a tumour.

But not all tumours are cancerous and may even be benign or non-cancerous.

The common thread between all cancers is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells and their spread throughout our body.

Causes of Cancer

Cancer is not contagious and develops gradually due to factors related to environment, lifestyle and heredity.

According to scientists almost all cancers are related to the use of tobacco products, diet, cancer causing agents (carcinogens) in the environment and workplace.

Risk factors of Cancer

• Smoking
Smoking and chewing tobacco caused most of lung cancer death.

Smokers are at higher risk of developing larynx, esophagus, pancreas, bladder, kidney, lung cancer as compared to non-smoker.

• High fat diet
Studies have indicated a link between certain cancers of the colon, prostate and a high fat diet.

• Alcohol
Alcohol increases the risk of cancers of mouth, throat, esophagus, liver and larynx.

• Hazardous chemicals
Prolong exposure to hazardous chemicals such as asbestos, nickel, cadmium, uranium, radon, vinyl chloride, benzidine and benzene causes cancer.

• Chronic infections
Such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HPV also increase the risk of cancers.

• Heredity
Family history of melanoma and colon cancers makes some prone to the disease.

Sign of Cancer

• A sore which refuses to heal.

• Change in a mole or wart.

• Change in normal bowel habits.

• Persistent hoarseness or cough.

• Persistent indigestion.

• Difficulty in swallowing.

• Appearance of a lump or thickening.

• Impairment of hearing with noise in the same ear.

But all these signs do not mean cancer, if they persist consult a doctor.

Treatments

The treatment of cancers is aimed at removing and destroying all the cancer cells by;

• Surgery
It is a local treatment that removes the cancerous cells as well as the surrounding lymph nodes at the same time.

• Chemotherapy
Treating cancers cells through medicines injected into the vein. The objective is to destroy the cancerous cells.

• Radiotherapy
Treatment using high energy rays to kill the cancerous cells.

• Hormone therapy
Use in treating prostate cancer which depend on hormonal growth.

Either go for surgery to remove the organs making the hormones or use medication to stop the hormonal growth.

• Biological therapy or immunotherapy
Monoclonal antibodies, interferon, interleukin-2 and white blood cell-stimulating factors such as GM-CSF and G-CSF are some of examples of this type of treatment.

Posted by: Mo Salle

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Related Site :

• Medicineworld

• Cancer.org

• Medicalnewstoday

• Cancer.gov

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