what is cancer?

Question

if you have that how long can you live

Answer 1

It depends... Are you a fighter?

Answer 2

Cancer , in simple terms , is the event of the body cells going crazy, all of a sudden.It would look that this has happened just like that but it is not so. Slowly, with or without our knowledge certain poisonous substances ( called carcenogens) get into our body like while smoking, chewing tobacco, using certain chemicals etc.

Once the cells go crazy it multiplies so fast that unless arrested it can be fatal.

Not all cancers kill. It depends upon which organ has been affected and how much. Today over 80% of different cancers are controllable. One can live a full life. As for the other cases of difficult cases there is still a lot of hope with a strong mind overcoming an affected body. So.... the bottom line is "DONOT GIVE UP".

Answer 3

Ah, cancer. The very word cause many to panic, but it is simply a cell that becomes mutated and begins attacking the body, and it spreads. There are probably millions of different kinds of cancer, and divisions within categories. Say breast cancer, of which my mother is a survivor. She had a tumor in her breast for an estimated 8 years, and a mamogram never caught it, and it was about the size of a walnut. It was malignant (a "bad" cancer), but it had not spread to the other breast or the lymph nodes. Some cancers spread rapidly, some cancers are harder to treat, say it is easier to give a woman with breast cancer chemo and take off the breast, but can you take out your blood (luekimia-cancer of the blood)? Ovarian cancer, bone cancer and blood cancers are among the hardest to treat, and I would imagine brain tumors because of the damage they can do, but I am not that familiar with brain cancer. Cancer should be treated, and if it is not you will proabably die, unless it is benign, but that can still cause problems (tumors pressing against and bruising your argans, for example). Some cancers have spread too much to be treated, and some don't have effective treatments. There is no set rule of how you get cancer, it is sometimes genetic, or caused by something (smoking can cause lung cancer and not using sunscreen can cause skin cancer, and taking estrogen has been linked to breast cancer rates, for example), but you can't say "if you have cancer, you will die in ___ amount of time" in general, because cancer is a broad term that affects all different parts of the body and in differnt ways and with different treatments.

Answer 4

Cancer: The mutation of somatic cells. Which causes other normal cells to experience in-nutrition, physical damamge, and lack of expanding space.
It will depend if you have a strong body or weak one to determine how long you will live if you have cancer.
Some live for few weeks, some for few months, few years, or full lifetime.

Answer 5

Some cancers can kill within 6 weeks, some can kill you in years, and many can be completely cured. It depends.

Answer 6

cancer is growth of abnormal cells eating up the normal cells.literally it eats up yourself.pshycholigically cancer is the by product of anger and nurturing bitterness.