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Question:
How do people get and die from cancer, and how can you
take care of it?
Replies:
Cancer is certainly a complex subject! To answer your
question would be very difficult here. However, I can offer the
following: Basically speaking, all cells in the body communicate
with the cells around it in order to know exactly what role or
function it will play within a tissue. Genetic controls over cell
divisions sometimes get out of hand and a cell will repeatedly divide
and crowd the surrounding normal cells, loosing its identity within
the tissue, so to speak. These cells are labeled cancerous or malignant.
When a cell grows and invades dissimilar tissue, the process is termed
metastasis.
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