WE Online, Jakarta –
The term cancer seems everyone has heard of it. People’s general understanding of Cancer refers to a deteriorating health condition and a risk of death. Is that right? What is it actually cancer?
Launching the cancer.gov page, Cancer is disease in which some cells of the body grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body.
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Cancer can start almost anywhere in the human body, which is made up of trillions of cells. Normally, human cells grow and reproduce (through a process called cell division) to form new cells as the body needs. When cells get old or damaged, they die, and new cells replace them.
Sometimes this orderly process breaks down, and abnormal or damaged cells grow and multiply when they shouldn’t. These cells can form tumors, which are clumps of tissue. Tumors can be cancerous or noncancerous (benign).
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Cancerous tumors spread or invade nearby tissue and can travel to distant sites in the body to form new tumors (a process called metastasis). Cancerous tumors can also be called malignant tumors. Many cancers form solid tumors, but blood cancers, such as leukemia, generally do not.
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