Some Questions About Cancer…plzplzplz Help!!THNX?
Question by Insomniac: Some Questions about cancer…plzplzplz help!!THNX?
heyyz….i want to ask a few things about cancer hoping u answer me.
1.What are some kinds of cancer??
2.How does a person get affected by cancer??
3.What are some cures for cancer if it was discovered early??
5.If a person has cancer,he must sleep in the hospital??
6.What are the ribbons colours for each cancer??
7.Can a person get cured frm cancer??
Best answer:
Answer by skeptikos
1. pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, testicular cancer, lung cancer
2. Being exposed to radiation, carcinogens, genes (hereditary)
3. surgery, chemotherapy, radiation
4. I guess you forgot four
5. No, you could be at home if you have cancer, but if it’s too complicated and you need more care you may need to stay at the hospital
6. pink= breast cancer
7. Yes, you can be cured.
Answer by Peter M
I just did a bunch of typing answering your question and Y/A was playing one of their sometime game of not letting me submit it. IRRITATING!
Answer #1 was fairly good but for a couple of points. There are over 200 types of cancer which is one reason it is so difficult to develop a cure for it. So far, there is no cure for any type of cancer but modern treatments are forcing many cancers into remission where the patient remains cancer free for many, many years. For instance, I might very well pass on from causes completely separate from my cancer or one little cell could have escaped the therapy I underwent and the cancer could come back.Yet another reason cancer is so hard to treat. Cancer is NOT hereditary but is caused by cells going “rogue”, replicating themselves and sometimes completely taking over an organ killing it. In some cases, the cancer tumor gets so large it runs out of room and squeezes the organ. I was treated in an outpatient oncology clinic and didn’t spend a day in the hospital with it but many cancers require stays in the hospital for therapy. Later I had to spend many nights in the hospital though for treatment of the side effects of therapies I received for the cancer. As far as being affected by cancer? Many, many ways! You get to meet a lot of new people, most of them in the health care professions and get to have a whole bunch of new experiences with the therapies used to treat you. If you were to meet me on the street, you could not tell I have cancer. Cancer has made me appreciate the life I have and the family I have much more than I used to. Sort of “woke me up” and said “hey there! Appreciate what you have, you lucky dog!” If you are doing research, also check on-line with “The American Cancer Society” or the “Mayo Clinic/Cancer”. “Johns Hopkins Cancer Center” is another good source. Be wary on line of the tons of MISinformation available such as quack “cures” and if you have doubts check with quackwatch.com or “Snopes”. The key word is “Cure” – if a site is promising one, it will usually be a site offering a scam, hoax or just plain wrong information. Best of luck to you!
P.S. For some reason, your question “grabbed” me and I don’t want to leave you with bad information if I can avoid it. There are SOME cancers which could be considered hereditary but it doesn’t happen all that often. If a relative has had the exact type of cancer as an off-spring, it can be determined to have been hereditary. For example, a grandmother, mopther and daughter all having breast cancer. But the main cause is as I said earlier -rougue cells gone wild.
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