Cancer
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Cancer is not a disease. It is many diseases. There might be a cure for each.
Major cause of death in developed countries and worldwide.
Wild, uncontrolled multiplication of cells of a particular clone or cell-line as a result of a series of errors in their control mechanisms and failure of apoptosis. Cancer is not usually transmissible but both oncogenic viruses and reduced immunological diversity such as in identical twins or inbreed populations could be associated with transmission. An example of the later case in mammals is Devil facial tumour disease[1].
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Epidemiology
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Incidence
Based on the National Statistics Office 2005 figures for England and Wales.[2]
Top 12 Cancers in Men (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer; 5 year survival in brackets[3])
- Prostate (65%)
- Lung (6%)
- Colon and rectum (47%)
- Bladder (64%)
- Non-Hodgkins lymphoma (47%)
- Stomach (13%)
- Oesophagus (7%)
- Melanoma (77%)
- Leukaemia (36%)
- Kidney (45%)
- Pancreas (2%)
- Oral cancer (62% - larynx)
Most Common Cancers in Women (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer; 5 year survival in brackets[4])
- Breast (77%)
- Colon and rectum (~50%)
- Lung (6%)
- Ovary (36%)
- Uterus (73%)
- Melanoma (87%)
- Non-Hodgkins lymphoma (52%)
- Pancreas (2%)
- Leukaemia (35%)
- Bladder (54%)
- Cervix (61%)
- Kidney (46%)
See Also
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References
- ↑ Kreiss A, Cheng Y, Kimble F, Wells B, Donovan S, Belov K, Woods GM. Allorecognition in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii), an endangered marsupial species with limited genetic diversity. PloS one. 2011; 6(7):e22402.(Link to article – subscription may be required.)
- ↑ http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/MB1_36/MB1_No36_2005.pdf
- ↑ http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/survival/latestrates/
- ↑ http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/survival/latestrates/
