Prevention and early detection are key to combating cancer. World Cancer Day

Prevention and early detection are key to combating cancer. World Cancer Day

The false claim on the Internet that cancer is a death sentence is not true. In reality, even with grim statistics, cancer is not always incurable. As scientists better understand cancer and develop appropriate treatments, the recovery rate increases. People also believe that cancer runs in families, although some cancers are passed genetically through families, representing a minority of cases; an estimated 3–10% of cancers are inherited from parents. results from mutations found. Cancer diagnosis

is just the beginning of your journey to improve your chances of survival and end the disease. It requires providing people with the knowledge, skills, and confidence-as well as opportunities-to close the health care gap and create a universal health care system.

One of the best ways to combat this disease is to detect it early and completely eliminate it from the body before cancer cells can grow.

It is critical to understand the various new forms of treatment and diagnosis that are available in order to reduce confusion.

reduce cancer misconceptions by raising awareness and promoting cancer education.

The problem in today's fast-paced world is that much of the information available is sometimes wrong, or at most dangerously misleading. Evidence-based, easy-to-understand resources, books, reports, podcasts, interviews, and expert opinions on cancer abound, but there are equally unfounded assumptions. For a layperson, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction, as most of this false information seems believable.

Scientists around the world have made great strides in learning more complex details about how cancer can be prevented, diagnosed, and treated.

Precision medicine is proving to be of benefit today in cancer treatment, where doctors can diagnose specific cancers based on detailed genetic information on the specific cancers that are most likely to successfully treat a person's cancer. 

(FAQs)

Q1. What exactly is cancer?

There is a continuous division of cells in our body, and this is a normal process over which the body has complete control. But when the body does not have control over the cells of a particular part of the body and they start growing abnormally, then it is called cancer.

Q2. How can you get cancer?

Cancer is triggered by a change in the genes of the cell. Changes in genes can also happen on their own or due to some external factors, such as tobacco, viruses, ultraviolet rays, radiation (X-rays, gamma rays, etc.). Usually the immune system eliminates such cells, but sometimes cancer cells dominate the immune system and then the disease takes its grip.

Q3. What are the rarest cancers?

The 10 rarest cancers:

Esophageal cancer

Myeloid leukaemia (chronic)

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Anal cancer

Merkel cell carcinoma

Thymic carcinoma

Hepatoblastoma

Glioblastoma

Ewing sarcoma

Kaposi sarcoma