what can't cancer do ?
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it can't do many things,\nseeing first hand i know that it can not diminish the will of the strong, the spirit of the faithful, the determination of the great.  it will not disrupt the love, compassion, fight, the daily smiles, and the wealth of courage.\ni have seen cancer take the lives of many, many too young to die, but in that most horrific war, i have found that cancer will not take them with out a battle, and in the end yes the cancer may have take them from us in the flesh but in the mind, hart and spirit they will live on forever.
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yeah, there is a good chance that you can cure cancer. to me, anything is possible. you just have to hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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wow, people who have no clue try to sound like medical experts.  I'm no medical expert, but I can lead you to a better answer.\n\nTelomere immortalization is one known element of cancer, so I'll use that to explain why smoking is a leading cause of cancer, but just know there are several other things that happen besides this.\n\nBasically cancers are cells that grow, bond, and refuse to die.  We're talking about cells that try to become immortal, and you can understand why.  The carbons and chemicals in your lungs actively block oxygen, which your lungs were designed to need.  Every time your body replaces dead cells (which it does constantly), it checks the environment they're in to see if they need to make adjustments.  Oxygen is essential to cell survival, so if you're choking them to death, they'll get desperate.  Some will just die.  Some will go on gasping for air.  But some will rebel from the body, which is killing them, and find their own mission.  And a tumor is born.  These are like lawless vigilantes who don't give a damn about being part of the body anymore.
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Cancer is a class of diseases characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these cells to invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue (invasion) or by implantation into distant sites (metastasis). This unregulated growth is caused by damage to DNA, resulting in mutations to genes that control cell division. Several mutations may be required to transform a normal cell into a malignant cell. These mutations are often caused by chemicals or physical agents called carcinogens. Some mutations occur spontaneously, or they can be inherited (germ line mutations.)
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sure, but the correct answer depends of what type and stage of cancer. For some types of cancer only excision (surgery) is curative. Some types require both surgery and chemo. Others require a bone marrow transplant but no radiation. Relatively few cancers are treated only with radiation. You are asking a question with variable answers.
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cancer is the big one, cancer cells are cells that just don't die, so they grow and reproduce take up valuable nutrients from healthy cells, crowd out healthy cells until the healthy cells die, and finally take over your body until it's systems shut down.
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Never heard of that!  Check out http://curezone.com/diseases/cancer/ \nfor some answers
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In reply to Domino, it is a misconception that if it is cancer that you can't move it. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at 25 and had been previously undiagnosed for two years prior because the doctors said that the lump wasn't hard enough and that they could move it so it was nothing. Two years later when it was twice the size they finally decided to do something about it. My advise to you would be to see your doctor and refuse for anything less than a mammogram or ultrasound. I found that you have to take your life into your own hands because the doctors aren't going to do it for you. You must insist on things like this because if you are under 35 then more than likely your doctor will tell you that it is nothing....which it more than likely is but why take that chance?
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Cancer is a disease that happens when normal cells anywhere in the human body goes out of control and multiply and mutate, causing the suffer much pain  and suffering. Everyone is  potentially prone to cancer, some more than others. No one is totally immune.
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No as cancers go it is relatively rare
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depends on the type of cancer, it is a disease and can come in lots of different areas of the body.
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As my treating doctor well put it across - there is never a permanent cure for cancer of any kind. After a period of five years of treatment, the cancer has not resurfaced you are declared 'cancer free'. Cancer free means you will live a little longer as cancer cells are still alive and can surface at anytime , especially as your body is always vurnable.\n\nRegarding the donations, its a topic one rather keep away from.
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There are many weapons in our arsenal against cancer. Some can cure certain cancers. Some can slow the cancer's advance down. No one approach cures all cancers.\n\nTypically once a cancer has metastasized and become cancers in the abdomen, the outlook is much worse, I am sorry to say. \n\n\nHere is a range of some of the types of cancer therapies:\n\nYou can cut it out. \n\nYou can try to kill the fast growing cancer cells with radiation or chemotherapy.\n\nYou can use drugs that target the blood supplies of the cancer (angiogenesis).\n\nYou can use molecular biology to design medications that bind to the receptors on the cancer cells and prevent them from functioning. \n\nThere are a range of other drugs that inhibit certain processes in the cancer cell (see ref).\n\nAntibody treatments like monoclonal antibodies. \n\nBiological response modifiers like immunotherapy, cytokine therapy.
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no, there is nothing in the procedure that can cause cancer.
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no as it cant kill previous cancer cells
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natural selection would prevent that from happening.\n\nnaturally, those without cancer would have a much greater chance of surviving and reproducing.  those who have cancer, or are somehow "born" with it, are much less likely to survive and carry on their genes.
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There are over 100 cures already available.\n\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/cancer.html