General Info | Carcinoma | Leukimia | Melanoma | Lymphoma |
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What is Cancer?
Disease when body cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body
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Where does it start?
Anywhere made up of cells
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What is a benign tumor?
stay in their primary location without invading other sites of the body
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When cancerous tumors spread and invade other body parts, what is this called?
Metastasis
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What genetic changes cause cancer?
error in cell division
damage to DNA by the environment inherited from parents |
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