Cancer is one of the most frightening diagnoses a doctor can render to a patient. The disease is unpredictable, often devastating, and to great extent still surrounded by misconceptions. It comprises more than a hundred different diseases and affect almost any part of the body.

such cells not only form tumours that invade adjacent healthy tissues, they can also migrate to other parts of the body and attack organs and tissues far from the original cancer site.

Despite the destructive potential of the disease, a diagnosis of cancer today need not be a death sentence. Thanks to the availability of improved cancer screening tests and potent new anticancer agents,many cancers can be cured-but only if they are detected and treated early enough.

Q:Is there anything I can do to avoid getting cancer?
A:There certainly is. Since modern treatments have not significantly altered survival rates for the most common cancers,prevention is all the more important.Tobacco and Alcohol is known to be a potent carcinogen and great increase for cancer.