Cancer

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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 deaths could virtually be eliminated within 20 years.
The U.S. government and private organizations spent about $1.2 billion annual for research. With the development of new drugs and treatments, the number of deaths among patients under 30 years of age is decreasing, even though the number of deaths from is growing overall.
TYPES OF
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 mechanisms that govern the growth and the metabolism of individual cells and the overall cell interactions of the living organism. Some neoplasms grow more rapidly than ...

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