Hello, people. How are you doing today? I'm Nate ,and this is Med Ed. The only blog where you can learn to save a life in a few clicks and some of your time. Today, I chose something I found interesting and important. We are learning about cancer. I feel like people just aren't educated. Most people I know just use it for an excuse to wear pink, as if breast cancer is the only one. Anyway, grab your snacks, and let's dive straight in.
13,000,000 Americans are diagnosed with cancer, with the number growing by 1,000,000 a year. Cancer is an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. It develops when the body's normal control mechanism stops working. Old, worn out cells don't die and it grows out of control, forming new, abnormal cells.
The types of cancer fall into 5 main categories. Carcinoma is the first one. It consists of cancers that start in the skin or tissue around the organs. There are a number of subtypes, including adenocarcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and transitional cell carcinoma. Sarcoma is the second one. It includes cancer started in the bone, fat, muscle, cartilage, blood vessels, and other supportive tissue.
Third is the leukemia. This type happens when cancer affects bone marrow and other blood forming tissue. It causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood. Fourth is lymphoma and myeloma. Its cancer that starts in the immune system. Finally, there's central nervous system cancer. It's fairly self explanatory.
That's all she wrote for today. I'll see you later for another installment of Med Ed. This one is going to be another request.
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