what is cancer?

Answer 1

havent you heard im the new cancer. i've never looked better and you cant stand it.

Answer 2

Cancer is actually a group of many related diseases that all have to do with cells. Cells are the very small units that make up all living things, including the human body. There are billions of cells in each person's body.

Cancer happens when cells that are not normal grow and spread very fast. Normal body cells grow and divide and know to stop growing. Over time, they also die. Unlike these normal cells, cancer cells just continue to grow and divide out of control and don't die.

Cancer cells usually group or clump together to form tumors (say: too-mers). A growing tumor becomes a lump of cancer cells that can destroy the normal cells around the tumor and damage the body's healthy tissues. This can make someone very sick.

Sometimes cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel to other areas of the body, where they keep growing and can go on to form new tumors. This is how cancer spreads. The spread of a tumor to a new place in the body is called metastasis (say: meh-tas-tuh-sis).

Answer 3

Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. Metastasis is defined as the stage in which cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system. Cancer may affect people at all ages, but risk increases with age. It is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

Answer 4

Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis. Metastasis is defined as the stage in which cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system. Cancer may affect people at all ages, but risk increases with age. It is one of the leading causes of death in developed countries.

Answer 5

A cancer is an un neccesary growth of cell in a secific area. If it grows in the brain, its a brain cancer and if in liver, its liver cancer.

Answer 6

cancer is the abnormal growth of cells in the body

Answer 7

My mother had throat, dad had lung, sister has uterine, uncle has brain and back, 3 cousins have passed who had it all ove, have another sister who is being tested for breast...i dont know what it is, i dont smoke never have, not even pot.. but my chances of getting cancer is about 90 percent...let me know what it is..

Answer 8

you have to be more specific with that Q their is a bunch of cancer out their to answer that honestly.

Answer 9

Uncontrolled division of cells. Follow the link for more.

Answer 10

Abnormal cell growth that can travel and interfere in the body.