Cancer

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type in children.
An increasing incidence has been clearly observable over the past few decades,
due in part to improved cancer screening programs, and also to the increasing
number of older persons in the population, and also to the large number of
tabacco smokers--particularly in women. Some researchers have estimated that if
Americans stopped smoking, lung cancer deaths could virtually be eliminated
within 20 years.
The U.S. government and private organizations spent about $1.2 billion
annual for cancer research. With the development of new drugs and treatments,
the number of deaths among cancer patients under 30 years of age is decreasing,
even though the number of deaths from cancer is growing overall.

TYPES OF CANCER

1.Cancer is the common term used to designate the mosst aggressive and
usually fatal forms of a larger class of the diseases known as neoplasms. A
neoplasm is described as being relatively autonomous because it does not fully
obey the biological ...

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