Anyone is overtaken by a Sudden jolt when told that they have cancer Why me? is the first question that comes to your mind. Is there anything that you could have done to avoid this deadly ailment? It does not matter how educated or sophisticated you are. There is always the shock, anger and confusion. On the contrary the healthy is always living in state of denial. For them cancer is always a disease that happened to others. But denial, avoidance and ignorance have no place when it comes to cancer. Close to 50% of the American population will face this disease at some point of time in their long life. Everyone has a stake in this disease. Either you or someone very dear to you will face this disease. It is important know more about cancer its history and how it progresses to be prepared for any eventuality.
Our human body is always prone to cancer. While It is the genetic complexity that makes us what we are that same genetic structure is vulnerable to mishaps and mutations. Cancer may start out as a chemical blunder deep within the cell but it gradually rewrites the person's genetic code almost becoming a new but deviant life form. Modern biotechnology has enabled us to decode the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) changes that lead to hundreds of different forms of cancer.
Cancer to put in simply can be termed as a growth in the body that has no purpose. This growth takes up space, and wastes energy of the organs and tissues it grows upon. Earliest recorded incidence of cancer was in 1600 BC in Egypt. An Egyptian papyrus reports cancer and physicians effort to destroy it with knives, burns and potions. Incas mummies with cancer have been recovered in Peru. The cancer tumors now are almost similar to what it was in ancient times but the only difference is that they have grown bigger and advanced. It was the Roman physician Aulius Cornelius Celsus in AD 30 coined the term tumor - meaning swelling or inflammation. He observed that advanced growth of tumors were warm, painful and ulcerate through skin looking similar to wounds.
Celsus was ahead of time but his understanding was limited. It was not until 1800 AD 200 years after the invention of microscope that the world of cells and tissues were open to the human eye. With this technology physicians got to study more in detail about the tumors and lump them either as malignant or benign.
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