Friday, October 14, 2005

Coping With Cancer--You Can Win the Battle!

Coping With Cancer--You Can Win the Battle!: "Coping With Cancer--You Can Win the Battle!


If you are reading this article, chances are that you or someone you care about has cancer right now! Cancer is the uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Normally, cells grow and divide to produce more cells as they are needed to keep the body healthy. Sometimes, however, this orderly process goes wrong. New cells form even when the body does not need them, and old cells do not die when they should. The extra cells form a mass of tissue called a growth or a tumor. Not all tumors are cancerous; tumors can be malignant (cancerous) or benign (non-cancerous).

Cancer has been around as long as mankind. In the second half of the 20th century, the number of reported cancer cases exploded. Due in part to the overload of toxins, pollutants, stress, dietary changes, lifestyle changes with people being less physical active, increasing numbers of pathogens, electromagnetic stress, artificial lighting and thousands of things that were not around 100 years ago. All of these combine to weaken your immune system and alter internal bodily functions, thus clearing the way for cancer to develop.

The most common type of cancer is non-melanoma skin cancer, with more than 1,000,000 new cases expected in the United States this year. Non-melanoma skin cancers represent about half of all the cancers diagnosed in this country. The cancers with the lowest incidence are renal cancer of the kidney and thyroid cancer.

Although cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, behind coronary disease, the survival rate for many types of cancer has drastically improved in recent years. About 1.1 million new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. in 2005 (the rate of 125 per hour) and about h"

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