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Cancer. A disease that has probably touched your life in some way. More than 40 percent of americans will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime, and more than 20 percent will die from it. When we talk of cancer, we often refer to it as if it were a single disease. But in reality, it is many diseases. One of the women i was counseling today had a Family Member who had uterine cancer, one had Breast Cancer, one had colon, one had cervix. I had to try to explain to her that these diseases were cancer, but were not all related. The cause of each was very different. Cancer is a general name for more than 100 different diseases. But what all cancers have in common is uncontrollable growth of cells. Cells are the Building Blocks ofll organisms they all grow and divide, but as a rule, only when the body needs new cells to stay healthy. But once cells become cancerous, they reproduce indefinitely. Cancer develops in cells that have damaged genes, or mutations. Harold varmus human cance

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